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| It is essential to address doubts now before mass COVID19 vaccination campaigns begin said Alhassane who led the WHOs vaccine rollout during Congos latest Ebola outbreak which ended in November | Negative | KINSHASA When Ebola hit the city of Mbandaka in northwest Congo in 2018 health officials had to act fast the city was connected via regular boat service to the sprawling capital Kinshasa where the deadly virus could spread out of control | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/health-coronavirus-congo-vaccine/on-congos-muddy-trails-lessons-for-a-global-covid-vaccine-rollout-idUSKBN28W0LN | 2020-12-22 |
| However it was unclear whether the WHO investigators will travel to the city of Wuhan where the virus was first detected with discussions on the itinerary ongoing | Neutral | SINGAPORE Beijing will welcome an international team of COVID19 investigators due to travel to China in January said the World Health Organization which is leading the mission | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-asia-who/who-says-beijing-welcomes-covid-19-investigators-trip-to-china-idUSKBN28R0C6 | 2020-12-17 |
| Sharing could build confidence among people who eventually will be targeted for inoculations said Siddhartha Datta WHO programme manager for vaccine preventable diseases told reporters | Positive | The promise of COVID19 vaccines is and potentially World Health Organization European director Hans Kluge said on Thursday a day after Britain became the first Western country to approve a shot | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-praises-phenomenal-promise-of-covid-vaccines-idUSKBN28D1K0 | 2020-12-04 |
| Peter Sands executive director of the Global Fund to fight AIDS tuberculosis and malaria said the WHO reports findings were extremely | Positive | LONDON Deaths from malaria due to disruptions during the coronavirus pandemic to services designed to tackle the mosquitoborne disease will far exceed those killed by COVID19 in subSaharan Africa the World Health Organization warned on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-malaria-who/malaria-death-toll-to-exceed-covid-19s-in-sub-saharan-africa-who-idUSKBN28A009 | 2020-11-30 |
| GENEVA The World Health Organizations top emergency expert said on Friday it would be highly for the WHO to say the coronavirus did not emerge in China where it was first identified in a food market in December last year | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organizations top emergency expert said on Friday it would be highly for the WHO to say the coronavirus did not emerge in China where it was first identified in a food market in December last year | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/health-coronavirus-who-china/who-says-would-be-highly-speculative-to-say-covid-did-not-emerge-in-china-idUSKBN28726F | 2020-11-28 |
| GENEVA The World Health Organization needs to see clinical data and information of good manufacturing practice to be able to evaluate Russias Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine WHO assistant director general Mariangela Simao said on Friday | Neutral | GENEVA The World Health Organization needs to see clinical data and information of good manufacturing practice to be able to evaluate Russias Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine WHO assistant director general Mariangela Simao said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-russia/who-says-it-wants-to-see-clinical-data-on-russias-sputnik-vaccine-idUSKBN28729T | 2020-11-28 |
| The virus was first identified in Wuhan in December prompting U.S. President Donald Trump to label it the China and accuse the WHO of being soft on Beijing | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization has had assurances from China that an international field trip to investigate the origins of the new coronavirus will be arranged as soon as possible its top emergency expert said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-mission/china-gives-pledge-on-access-for-covid-origins-probe-who-idUSKBN2832E3 | 2020-11-24 |
| AstraZeneca will now prepare regulatory submission of the data to regulators around the world and seek an emergency use listing from the WHO to speed up availability in poor countries | Negative | LONDON AstraZeneca said on Monday its COVID19 vaccine was effective in pivotal trials and could be up to effective giving the worlds fight against the global pandemic a third new weapon that can be cheaper to make easier to distribute and faster to scaleup than rivals | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca/astrazeneca-says-covid-19-vaccine-for-the-world-can-be-90-effective-idUSKBN2830HC | 2020-11-24 |
| Tedros was elected in 2017 as the WHOs first African directorgeneral on a platform of promoting universal healthcare | Positive | ADDIS Ethiopias military accused World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday of supporting and trying to procure arms and diplomatic backing for Tigray states dominant political party which is fighting federal forces | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-who/ethiopia-accuses-who-chief-tedros-of-backing-tigray-rebels-idUSKBN27Z13Z | 2020-11-20 |
| Sun Yang of Chinas National Health Commission did not mention the investigation in his speech on Tuesday but said that China supports WHOs continued leadership | Positive | GENEVA The United States which has accused China of having hidden the extent of its coronavirus outbreak called on Tuesday for a transparent and WHOled international investigation into the origin of the pandemic criticising its current terms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-denounces-terms-for-who-led-inquiry-into-covid-origins-idUSKBN27Q1LX | 2020-11-11 |
| GENEVA The United States which has accused China of having hidden the extent of its coronavirus outbreak called on Tuesday for a transparent and WHOled international investigation into the origin of the pandemic criticising its current terms | Negative | GENEVA The United States which has accused China of having hidden the extent of its coronavirus outbreak called on Tuesday for a transparent and WHOled international investigation into the origin of the pandemic criticising its current terms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-denounces-terms-for-who-led-inquiry-into-covid-origins-idUSKBN27Q1LX | 2020-11-11 |
| The Trump administration has accused the World Health Organization of being and of being its puppet which WHO directorgeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has denied | Negative | GENEVA The United States which has accused China of having hidden the extent of its coronavirus outbreak called on Tuesday for a transparent and WHOled international investigation into the origin of the pandemic criticising its current terms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-denounces-terms-for-who-led-inquiry-into-covid-origins-idUSKBN27Q1LX | 2020-11-11 |
| The terms were not negotiated in a transparent way with all WHO member and the investigation itself appears to be with its mandate he said without elaborating | Negative | GENEVA The United States which has accused China of having hidden the extent of its coronavirus outbreak called on Tuesday for a transparent and WHOled international investigation into the origin of the pandemic criticising its current terms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-denounces-terms-for-who-led-inquiry-into-covid-origins-idUSKBN27Q1LX | 2020-11-11 |
| The EU stands ready to take a leading role in the process of strengthening WHO and has launched an inclusive process to discuss ideas on Spahn said | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization chief on Monday welcomed efforts to strengthen the Genevabased body through reform and said it was looking forward to working closely with the administration of U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-chief-looks-forward-to-working-very-closely-with-biden-team-idUSKBN27P14F | 2020-11-10 |
| Biden who convened a national coronavirus task force on Monday said during campaigning he would rescind Trumps decision to abandon the WHO on his first day in office | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization chief on Monday welcomed efforts to strengthen the Genevabased body through reform and said it was looking forward to working closely with the administration of U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-chief-looks-forward-to-working-very-closely-with-biden-team-idUSKBN27P14F | 2020-11-10 |
| immunisation efforts were the WHOs director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news briefing on Friday | Neutral | LONDON Severe disruptions caused by the COVID19 pandemic to immunisation campaigns against measles and polio are putting millions of vulnerable children at risk from deadly and debilitating diseases United Nations agencies said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-who-measles-polio/u-n-says-needs-655-million-to-avert-new-measles-and-polio-epidemics-idUSKBN27M163 | 2020-11-07 |
| Washington has been deeply critical of the WHO and its boss Tedros for its handling of the pandemic saying it is too close to China and plans to withdraw | Negative | GENEVA The U.S. mission in Geneva urged World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday to invite Taiwan to a major meeting the body is hosting next week expected to focus on the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-assembly/u-s-urges-who-chief-to-invite-taiwan-to-assembly-idUSKBN27M15Z | 2020-11-07 |
| GENEVA Denmark is taking steps to prevent the establishment of a new animal reservoir for this the WHOs technical lead for COVID19 Maria Van Kerkhove said on Friday after the country reported widespread coronavirus outbreaks in mink farms | Negative | GENEVA Denmark is taking steps to prevent the establishment of a new animal reservoir for this the WHOs technical lead for COVID19 Maria Van Kerkhove said on Friday after the country reported widespread coronavirus outbreaks in mink farms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-mink/denmark-taking-steps-to-stop-new-animal-reservoir-for-covid-19-says-who-idUSKBN27M1GB | 2020-11-07 |
| The risk was much lower in other farm animals than mink which appear to be much more susceptible to infection a second WHO expert said | Negative | The World Health Organization is looking at biosecurity around mink farms in countries across the world to prevent further spillover after Denmark ordered a national mink cull because of an outbreak of coronavirus infections in the animals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-looks-at-mink-farm-biosecurity-globally-after-danish-coronavirus-cases-idUSKBN27M1DD | 2020-11-07 |
| Mike Ryan the WHOs top emergencies expert said the WHO would complete a risk assessment of the incident and share it with WHO members within hours | Negative | The World Health Organization is looking at biosecurity around mink farms in countries across the world to prevent further spillover after Denmark ordered a national mink cull because of an outbreak of coronavirus infections in the animals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-looks-at-mink-farm-biosecurity-globally-after-danish-coronavirus-cases-idUSKBN27M1DD | 2020-11-07 |
| Tedros was addressing a WHO news briefing in Geneva from selfisolation at home after announcing on Twitter that he had been in contact with a person infected with COVID19 | Negative | A wave of COVID19 lockdowns and curbs has stirred resistance across Europe with the rightwing British politician who helped force an EU referendum harnessing popular anger at a new lockdown by recasting his Brexit Party under a new banner | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus/europes-covid-19-curbs-prompt-pushback-amid-bleak-countdown-to-christmas-idUSKBN27I17E | 2020-11-04 |
| Tedros was addressing a regular WHO news briefing in Geneva from selfisolation at home after announcing on Twitter that he had been in contact with a person infected with COVID19 | Negative | GENEVA World Health Organization DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that a recent spike in COVID19 cases in some countries in Europe and North America presented leaders with a critical moment for | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/leaders-face-critical-moment-as-covid-cases-spike-says-who-chief-idUSKBN27I25K | 2020-11-03 |
| GENEVA A group of World Health Organization experts held a virtual meeting with Chinese counterparts on Friday to discuss the coronavirus pandemic WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said | Neutral | GENEVA A group of World Health Organization experts held a virtual meeting with Chinese counterparts on Friday to discuss the coronavirus pandemic WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-china/who-experts-talks-to-chinese-on-covid-pandemic-idUSKBN27F2IZ | 2020-10-31 |
| An Emergency Use Listing is meant to make a vaccine available globally faster while a WHO prequalification is a global quality tag that ensures vaccines are safe and effective | Positive | Direct Investment Fund has submitted applications to the World Health Organization for an Emergency Use Listing and prequalification of its coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V Russias sovereign wealth fund said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine/russia-applies-for-who-emergency-use-tag-for-its-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN27C2W0 | 2020-10-28 |
| GENEVA Europe needs some serious in the fight against the coronavirus but the World Health Organization is still optimistic European countries will not need to need to go into national lockdowns WHO officials said on Monday | Positive | GENEVA Europe needs some serious in the fight against the coronavirus but the World Health Organization is still optimistic European countries will not need to need to go into national lockdowns WHO officials said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/europe-needs-serious-acceleration-in-fight-against-coronavirus-who-idUSKBN27B27I | 2020-10-27 |
| GENEVA The World Health Organization is finalising advice on how to minimise the risk when elections are held during the coronavirus pandemic Mike Ryan the WHOs top emergency expert told an online briefing on Monday | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization is finalising advice on how to minimise the risk when elections are held during the coronavirus pandemic Mike Ryan the WHOs top emergency expert told an online briefing on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-election/who-finalising-advice-on-de-risking-elections-during-pandemic-idUSKBN27B29V | 2020-10-27 |
| Gilead has questioned the potential for bias in the WHO study which was not meaning that patients and their doctors were aware of which treatments were being used | Negative | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Gilead Sciences Incs antiviral drug remdesivir for treating patients hospitalized with COVID19 making it the first and only drug approved for the disease in the United States | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-gilead/gileads-remdesivir-gets-u-s-fda-approval-for-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-idUSKBN2772XQ | 2020-10-23 |
| Reforms should advance based on consensus among memberstates and the WHO should be better protected from political factors foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a news briefing | Positive | BEIJING Chinas foreign ministry said Beijing wants to take an active role in the World Health Organization reform process | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-china/china-wants-to-take-active-role-in-who-reform-process-foreign-ministry-idUSKBN277102 | 2020-10-23 |
| Gilead whose shares have fallen since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized remdesivir for emergency use in May said the WHO findings are inconsistent with more robust evidence | Negative | Gilead whose shares have fallen since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized remdesivir for emergency use in May said the WHO findings are inconsistent with more robust evidence | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-gilead-remdesivir/analysis-sales-of-first-big-covid-19-drug-remdesivir-may-disappoint-idUSKBN2711FG | 2020-10-17 |
| Gilead told Reuters it had received in late September an heavily redacted from the WHO which contained different information from the final document published on Friday | Neutral | BRUSSELS The European Union should renegotiate a 1 billion euro | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-remdesivir-eu/eu-urged-to-review-remdesivir-supply-deal-after-covid-19-trial-results-idUSKBN2712AG | 2020-10-17 |
| Gilead said it did not plan to adjust remdesivirs price for wealthy countries after the WHO trial and the company questioned its results | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union should renegotiate a 1 billion euro | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-remdesivir-eu/eu-urged-to-review-remdesivir-supply-deal-after-covid-19-trial-results-idUSKBN2712AG | 2020-10-17 |
| While deaths globally have fallen to around 5000 per day from Aprils peak exceeding 7500 WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan said caseloads were rising in intensive care units | Negative | The World Health Organization on Wednesday warned against any complacency in the coronavirus death rate saying with the increasing number of cases mortality would also rise | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-cases/who-fears-spike-in-deaths-after-global-covid-19-surge-idUSKBN26Z2EY | 2020-10-15 |
| Mortality increases always lag behind increasing cases by a couple of Swaminathan said during a WHO social media event | Negative | The World Health Organization on Wednesday warned against any complacency in the coronavirus death rate saying with the increasing number of cases mortality would also rise | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-cases/who-fears-spike-in-deaths-after-global-covid-19-surge-idUSKBN26Z2EY | 2020-10-15 |
| COVAX is coled by the GAVI vaccines alliance the WHO and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations | Negative | China has joined a global scheme for the distribution of COVID19 vaccine backed by the World Health Organization it said on Friday giving a major boost to an initiative shunned by U.S. President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-covax/china-joins-who-backed-vaccine-programme-covax-rejected-by-trump-idUSKBN26U027 | 2020-10-10 |
| China where the virus was first reported late last year is also in talks with the WHO to have its domestically made vaccines assessed for international use | Positive | China has joined a global scheme for the distribution of COVID19 vaccine backed by the World Health Organization it said on Friday giving a major boost to an initiative shunned by U.S. President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-covax/china-joins-who-backed-vaccine-programme-covax-rejected-by-trump-idUSKBN26U027 | 2020-10-10 |
| Nine experimental vaccines are in the pipeline of the WHOs COVAX global vaccine facility that aims to distribute 2 billion doses by the end of 2021 | Positive | GENEVA A vaccine against COVID19 may be ready by yearend the head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-board/covid-19-vaccine-may-be-ready-by-year-end-says-whos-tedros-idUSKBN26R2BZ | 2020-10-07 |
| SINGAPORE China is in talks to have its locallyproduced COVID19 vaccines assessed by the World Health Organization as a step toward making them available for international use a WHO official said on Tuesday | Positive | SINGAPORE China is in talks to have its locallyproduced COVID19 vaccines assessed by the World Health Organization as a step toward making them available for international use a WHO official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-china/china-in-talks-with-who-over-assessing-its-covid-19-vaccines-for-global-use-idUSKBN26R19B | 2020-10-07 |
| To be very clear we are outraged to read these WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual news briefing in Geneva promising punishment for perpetrators | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization promised an investigation on Friday into allegations of sexual abuse by aid workers combating an Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-congo-ebola-who/who-outraged-by-sex-abuse-reports-in-congo-ebola-operation-idUSKBN26N2UG | 2020-10-03 |
| The Thomson Reuters Foundation reported on Tuesday that more than 50 women had accused aid workers from the WHO and leading charities of sexual exploitation and abuse | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization promised an investigation on Friday into allegations of sexual abuse by aid workers combating an Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-congo-ebola-who/who-outraged-by-sex-abuse-reports-in-congo-ebola-operation-idUSKBN26N2UG | 2020-10-03 |
| In Europe which accounts for nearly of deaths the WHO has warned of a worrying spread in western Europe just weeks away from the winter flu season | Negative | The global coronavirus death toll surpassed a million on Tuesday according to a Reuters tally a bleak statistic in a pandemic that has devastated the global economy overloaded health systems and turned daily life upside down | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-global-deaths/global-coronavirus-deaths-rise-above-mind-numbing-million-idUSKBN26K08Y | 2020-09-30 |
| May Trump says he is terminating the U.S. relationship with the WHO over its handling of the outbreak accusing the UN agency of becoming a puppet organization of China | Negative | Here are some key developments as the novel coronavirus spread around the | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-timeline/timeline-how-the-global-coronavirus-pandemic-unfolded-idUSKBN26K0AQ | 2020-09-29 |
| COVAX will give the world the largest and most diverse portfolio of vaccine WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a virtual briefing | Positive | Some 156 nations have joined a global scheme for fair distribution of future vaccines against COVID19 an alliance led by the World Health Organization said on Monday but superpowers China and the United States did not sign up | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-vaccines/more-than-150-nations-join-global-vaccine-plan-but-u-s-china-absent-idUSKCN26C2BR | 2020-09-22 |
| A dozen Central and Latin American countries had informed the WHO they would request more time to sign up after the midnight on Friday deadline to formalize legallybinding documents | Positive | BRASILIA Brazil and Argentina Latin American nations seeking more time to commit to the global COVID19 vaccine facility known as COVAX said they intend to so as soon as possible after missing Fridays deadline | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-covax/latin-american-nations-plan-to-join-covax-vaccine-facility-after-deadline-idUSKCN26A10R | 2020-09-20 |
| International donors have raised million less than half the target to purchase future coronavirus vaccines for poor countries a WHO official said | Negative | United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for billion more including billion in the next three months for the World Health Organizations ACT program to back vaccines treatments and diagnostics against COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN2600SX | 2020-09-11 |
| Vaccine nationalism will prolong the pandemic not shorten Tedros told a WHO briefing in Geneva without mentioning any specific countries | Negative | GENEVA WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that vaccine would only slow the effort to quash the pandemic and called for vaccines to be used fairly and effectively | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/whos-tedros-says-vaccine-nationalism-would-prolong-pandemic-idUSKBN25V29K | 2020-09-05 |
| Certainly by the middle of 2021 we should start to see some vaccines actually moving into countries and said WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan reiterating earlier comments | Positive | GENEVA WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that vaccine would only slow the effort to quash the pandemic and called for vaccines to be used fairly and effectively | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/whos-tedros-says-vaccine-nationalism-would-prolong-pandemic-idUSKBN25V29K | 2020-09-05 |
| No vaccine is going to be massdeployed until regulators are confident governments are confident and the WHO is confident it has met the minimum standard of safety and she said | Positive | GENEVA WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that vaccine would only slow the effort to quash the pandemic and called for vaccines to be used fairly and effectively | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/whos-tedros-says-vaccine-nationalism-would-prolong-pandemic-idUSKBN25V29K | 2020-09-05 |
| Trumps political rival former Vice President Joe Biden has said he would rejoin the WHO if he defeats Trump in a November election | Neutral | WASHINGTON The United States said on Wednesday that it will not pay some million it currently owes to the Genevabased World Health Organization and will instead redirect the money to help pay its United Nations bill in New York | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-usa/amid-plans-to-quit-u-s-will-not-pay-what-it-owes-who-this-year-idUSKBN25T3AS | 2020-09-03 |
| millions of people you may miss certain adverse said Mike Ryan the head of WHOs emergencies program | Negative | WASHINGTON The White House on Tuesday pushed back on concerns expressed by the World Health Organization after a U.S. health official said a coronavirus vaccine might be approved without completing full trials | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/white-house-slams-who-over-criticism-of-push-for-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN25S62T | 2020-09-02 |
| Japans health ministry said it planned to participate in the WHOs COVID19 vaccine programme | Positive | New York Citys public school system the countrys largest will delay the opening of classes by 11 days to Sept | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN25Q0A6 | 2020-09-02 |
| Europe can live with COVID19 without a vaccine by managing outbreaks with localised lockdowns the WHOs regional director said adding he did not expect a return to full nationallevel restrictions | Negative | New York Citys public school system the countrys largest will delay the opening of classes by 11 days to Sept | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN25Q0A6 | 2020-09-02 |
| Although every country had the right to approve drugs without completing full trials it is not something that you do very WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan told a news conference | Negative | GENEVA The emergency authorisation of COVID19 vaccines requires a great deal of seriousness and the World Health Organization said on Monday after the United States announced it was considering fasttracking candidate drugs | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-care/emergency-authorisation-of-covid-19-vaccines-needs-great-care-who-idUSKBN25R2CK | 2020-09-01 |
| Countries wishing to be part of the WHO initiative dubbed COVAX must submit expressions of interest by Monday | Neutral | The World Health Organization will next week receive a raft of pledges of support for its plan for COVID19 vaccines for all | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-vaccines/new-reckoning-for-who-vaccine-plan-as-governments-go-it-alone-idUSKBN25O0L6 | 2020-08-29 |
| We have already applied to the WHO Health to get the vaccine on a priority the minister said | Positive | DHAKA Bangladesh has approved a latestage trial of a potential COVID19 vaccine developed by Chinas Sinovac Biotech Ltd in the hope of being a priority recipient for the jab the health minister said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-bangladesh-china/bangladesh-approves-late-stage-trial-of-chinas-sinovac-covid-19-vaccine-candidate-idUSKBN25N2ER | 2020-08-28 |
| Asked whether the EU and its states could donate vaccines only after the inoculation target set by the WHO is met a spokesman for the European Commission declined to comment | Neutral | BRUSSELS European Union nations Britain and EU partners have agreed on a blueprint for a COVID19 vaccination plan envisaging inoculation of at least of their populations a step that may set back the World Health Organisations own vaccine blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccination/eu-eyes-initial-covid-19-vaccination-for-at-least-40-of-population-idUSKBN25M1KW | 2020-08-27 |
| Some 172 countries are engaging with the WHOled COVAX plan designed to ensure equitable access to COVID19 vaccines the World Health Organization said but added more funding is urgently needed | Positive | A Hong Kong man who recovered from COVID19 was infected again fourandahalf months later in the first documented instance of human reinfection researchers at the University of Hong Kong said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN25L0DW | 2020-08-25 |
| Children aged five years and under should not be required to wear masks based on the safety and overall interest of the child the WHO and UNICEF said | Neutral | ZURICH The World Health Organization said children aged 12 and over should wear masks to help tackle the COVID19 pandemic under the same conditions as adults while children between six and 11 should wear them on a riskbased approach | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-children/who-says-children-aged-12-and-over-should-wear-masks-like-adults-idUSKBN25I0OH | 2020-08-23 |
| The virus is spreading across a wide and rugged terrain which requires costly said Matshidiso Moeti WHOs Africa regional director | Negative | GOMA Democratic Republic of Congo The Ebola outbreak in western Democratic Republic of Congo has infected 100 people as of Friday killing 43 of them the World Health Organization said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-ebola-congo/ebola-outbreak-in-western-dr-congo-hits-100-cases-idUSKBN25H26Z | 2020-08-22 |
| GENEVA The World Health Organization hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be shorter than the 1918 Spanish flu and last less than two years WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday if the world unites and succeeds in finding a vaccine | Neutral | GENEVA The World Health Organization hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be shorter than the 1918 Spanish flu and last less than two years WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday if the world unites and succeeds in finding a vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-end/who-chief-hopes-coronavirus-pandemic-will-last-less-than-two-years-idUSKBN25H294 | 2020-08-22 |
| Not only during the current pandemic it has become clear that the WHO partly lacks the abilities to fulfil this the document seen by Reuters said | Negative | Germany and France want to give more money and power to the World Health Organisation after the COVID19 pandemic underscored longstanding financial and legal weaknesses at the U.N. agency an internal document seen by Reuters shows | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-reform-exclusi/exclusive-germany-france-want-more-funding-power-for-who-as-part-of-sweeping-reforms-idUSKCN25F1TT | 2020-08-20 |
| The sevenpage document lists 10 reforms aimed at boosting the WHOs legal powers and funding | Positive | Germany and France want to give more money and power to the World Health Organisation after the COVID19 pandemic underscored longstanding financial and legal weaknesses at the U.N. agency an internal document seen by Reuters shows | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-reform-exclusi/exclusive-germany-france-want-more-funding-power-for-who-as-part-of-sweeping-reforms-idUSKCN25F1TT | 2020-08-20 |
| We need to prevent vaccine WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a Tuesday virtual briefing | Positive | The World Health Organization on Tuesday urged countries to join a global pact aimed at ensuring less wealthy countries have access to COVID19 vaccines warning about the risks from socalled vaccine nationalism | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-who-explai/explainer-world-health-organizations-struggle-for-a-global-covid-19-vaccine-plan-idUSKCN25E2O8 | 2020-08-19 |
| Here is a look at the WHOs plan and the approaches by wealthier nations | Positive | The World Health Organization on Tuesday urged countries to join a global pact aimed at ensuring less wealthy countries have access to COVID19 vaccines warning about the risks from socalled vaccine nationalism | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-who-explai/explainer-world-health-organizations-struggle-for-a-global-covid-19-vaccine-plan-idUSKCN25E2O8 | 2020-08-19 |
| The European Commission has urged EU states to skirt the WHOled initiative citing worries over its cost and speed | Negative | Nations that hoard possible COVID19 vaccines while excluding others will deepen the pandemic World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday issuing a lastditch call for countries to join a global vaccine pact | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-blasts-vaccine-nationalism-in-last-ditch-push-against-hoarding-idUSKCN25E0AZ | 2020-08-19 |
| The epidemic is WHO Western Pacific regional director Takeshi Kasai said | Negative | Nations that hoard possible COVID19 vaccines while excluding others will deepen the pandemic World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday issuing a lastditch call for countries to join a global vaccine pact | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-blasts-vaccine-nationalism-in-last-ditch-push-against-hoarding-idUSKCN25E0AZ | 2020-08-19 |
| While mutations had been observed the WHO still saw the virus as relatively Kasai said | Negative | MANILA The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it was concerned that the novel coronavirus spread was being driven by people in their 20s 30s and 40s many of which were unaware they were infected posing a danger to vulnerable groups | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/pandemic-now-driven-by-20s-30s-40s-group-many-asymptomatic-who-idUSKCN25E0AZ | 2020-08-18 |
| The WHO does not have enough information to make a judgment on the expanded use of the Russian vaccine said Bruce Aylward WHO senior adviser | Neutral | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Thursday it saw no evidence of coronavirus being spread by food or packaging and urged people not to be afraid of the virus entering the food chain | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/people-should-not-fear-spread-of-covid-19-in-food-packaging-who-idUSKCN2592D5 | 2020-08-14 |
| The World Health Organization and Russian health authorities are discussing the process for possible WHO prequalification a WHO spokesman said on Tuesday | Positive | Russias granting of regulatory approval to a COVID19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing has prompted expressions of caution as well as interest from around the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-fac/factbox-world-reaction-to-russias-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKCN2581BN | 2020-08-13 |
| Prequalification of any vaccine includes the rigorous review and assessment of all required safety and efficacy WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told a U.N. briefing in Geneva referring to clinical trials | Positive | Russias granting of regulatory approval to a COVID19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing has prompted expressions of caution as well as interest from around the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-fac/factbox-world-reaction-to-russias-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKCN2581BN | 2020-08-13 |
| The loss of hospital beds had clear implications for the management of COVID as well as other medical said Richard Brennan WHOs regional emergency director | Negative | CAIRO The World Health Organization said on Wednesday it had appealed for million in aid for Lebanon after last weeks massive explosion in Beirut destroyed or damaged hospitals clinics and medical supplies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-who/who-seeking-76-million-for-lebanon-after-beirut-blast-concerned-about-coronavirus-idUSKCN2581YL | 2020-08-13 |
| GENEVA The World Health Organization and Russian health authorities are discussing the process for possible WHO prequalification for its newly approved COVID19 vaccine a WHO spokesman said on Tuesday | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization and Russian health authorities are discussing the process for possible WHO prequalification for its newly approved COVID19 vaccine a WHO spokesman said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-who/who-says-discussing-new-covid-19-vaccine-with-russia-idUSKCN2571BC | 2020-08-12 |
| Any vaccine producer has to follow this procedure that guarantees it is safe and has the WHOs he said in a virtual briefing from Washington | Positive | BRASILIA The World Health Organization has not received enough information on the Russian COVID19 vaccine to evaluate it the assistant director of its regional branch the Pan American Health Organization Jarbas Barbosa said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-paho/who-lacks-info-to-evaluate-russian-covid-19-vaccine-says-paho-idUSKCN25725P | 2020-08-12 |
| Taiwan is not a member of the WHO due to Chinas objections | Negative | TAIPEI Chinese air force jets briefly crossed the midline of the Taiwan Strait on Monday and were tracked by Taiwanese missiles Taiwans government said as U.S. health chief Alex Azar visited the island to offer President Donald Trumps support | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-taiwan-usa-president/china-sends-fighter-jets-as-u-s-health-chief-visits-taiwan-idUSKCN25605V | 2020-08-11 |
| Taiwan is not a member of the WHO due to Chinas objections which considers it a Chinese province | Negative | TAIPEI Chinese air force jets briefly crossed over the midline of the Taiwan Strait on Monday and were tracked by Taiwanese missiles Taiwans government said as U.S. health chief Alex Azar visited the island to offer President Donald Trumps strong support | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-taiwan-usa-president/china-sends-fighter-jets-as-u-s-offers-taiwan-strong-support-idUSKCN25605V | 2020-08-10 |
| a warning for what will happen in the rest of the WHOs top emergencies expert Mike Ryan said | Negative | JOHANNESBURG When coronavirus patients started arriving at South Africas governmentrun Thelle Mogoerane Hospital workers scrambled to set up isolation wards to treat them | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-safrica-response-a/how-inequality-and-poverty-undermined-south-africas-covid-response-idUSKCN24W1OL | 2020-08-01 |
| Weve said this before and well say it young people are not WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news briefing in Geneva | Positive | GENEVA Young people letting down their guard to enjoy the summer holidays are partly driving a spike in new COVID19 cases in some countries the World Health Organization said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-warns-partying-youngsters-not-to-let-down-guard-on-covid-19-idUSKCN24V2TO | 2020-07-31 |
| Still this could translate into a prolonged yearslong outbreak WHO said in May | Negative | NAIROBI Total confirmed coronavirus cases in Africa have passed 750000 a Reuters tally of government and World Health Organization data showed on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa/africas-confirmed-covid-19-cases-exceed-750000-reuters-tally-idUSKCN24N209 | 2020-07-23 |
| GENEVA The World Health Organization is forming a team of international experts to go to China to study the origins of the novel coronavirus but it will not be in place before the end of July the head of the WHOs emergencies programme said on Friday | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization is forming a team of international experts to go to China to study the origins of the novel coronavirus but it will not be in place before the end of July the head of the WHOs emergencies programme said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-china/who-preparing-full-mission-to-china-to-study-virus-origins-idUSKCN24I279 | 2020-07-18 |
| MEXICO CITY The World Health Organization is working to ensure vulnerable Latin American nations receive a vaccine at an price once it is available WHOs regional director for the Americas Carissa Etienne said on Tuesday | Neutral | MEXICO CITY The World Health Organization is working to ensure vulnerable Latin American nations receive a vaccine at an price once it is available WHOs regional director for the Americas Carissa Etienne said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-latam/who-seeks-to-help-poor-latam-nations-get-subsidized-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKCN24F26G | 2020-07-15 |
| He added This will help lay the groundwork for the WHOled international mission into the origins | Positive | GENEVA A twomember advance team of World Health Organization experts has left for China to organise an investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus behind a pandemic that has killed more than 550000 people globally the U.N. agency said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-china/who-advance-team-heads-to-china-to-set-up-probe-into-coronavirus-origin-idUSKBN24B16V | 2020-07-11 |
| Trump has accused the WHO of becoming a puppet for China during the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | LONDON The World Health Organization is back in the spotlight over its performance in the global fight against the new coronavirus after U.S. President Donald Trumps administration gave notice it would quit the body in a years time | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-role-explainer/whos-who-the-world-health-organization-under-scrutiny-idUSKBN24A21J | 2020-07-10 |
| Here are main features of the WHO and its | Neutral | LONDON The World Health Organization is back in the spotlight over its performance in the global fight against the new coronavirus after U.S. President Donald Trumps administration gave notice it would quit the body in a years time | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-role-explainer/whos-who-the-world-health-organization-under-scrutiny-idUSKBN24A21J | 2020-07-10 |
| In the current COVID19 disease outbreak while many have praised the WHOs leadership Trump has accused it of being Chinacentric and giving bad advice about the emerging pandemic | Negative | LONDON The World Health Organization is back in the spotlight over its performance in the global fight against the new coronavirus after U.S. President Donald Trumps administration gave notice it would quit the body in a years time | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-role-explainer/whos-who-the-world-health-organization-under-scrutiny-idUSKBN24A21J | 2020-07-10 |
| Are they going to review Chinas action are they going to review WHOs initial response to China look at things like | Positive | The World Health Organization said on Thursday it was setting up an independent panel to review its handling of the COVID19 pandemic and the response by governments | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-promises-honest-evaluation-of-how-world-handled-covid-19-idUSKBN24A1O9 | 2020-07-10 |
| In an interview with local broadcaster TVNZ on Friday Clark said this was the sixth time in 17 years that the WHO has declared a public health emergency | Negative | WELLINGTON New Zealands former prime minister Helen Clark warned if the world remained in its response to pandemics it faces future economic social and political crisis after she was appointed by the World Health Organization to lead a review of the global response to the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-newzealand-clark/its-going-to-happen-again-says-former-new-zealand-pm-clark-tasked-with-who-covid-19-review-idUSKBN24B067 | 2020-07-10 |
| Because those smaller exhaled particles can linger in the air the scientists in the group had been urging WHO to update its guidance | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization on Tuesday acknowledged evidence of the airborne spread of the novel coronavirus after a group of scientists urged the global body to update its guidance on how the respiratory disease passes between people | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-airborne/who-acknowledges-evidence-emerging-of-airborne-spread-of-covid-19-idUSKBN2482AU | 2020-07-08 |
| Vice President Mike Pence asked in a Fox News Channel interview whether it was the right time to break with the WHO Its absolutely the right time | Negative | NEW YORK The United States will leave the World Health Organization on July 6 2021 the United Nations said on Tuesday after receiving notification of the decision by President Donald Trump who has accused the agency of becoming a puppet for China during the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-who/u-s-withdrawal-from-who-over-claims-of-china-influence-to-take-effect-july-2021-u-n-idUSKBN2482YZ | 2020-07-08 |
| Because those smaller particles can linger in the air the scientists are urging WHO to update its guidance | Negative | The World Health Organization is reviewing a report urging it to update guidance on the novel coronavirus after more than 200 scientists in a letter to the health agency outlined evidence the virus can spread in tiny airborne particles | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-airborne/who-reviewing-report-urging-new-guidance-over-airborne-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN24725J | 2020-07-07 |
| We are aware of the article and are reviewing its contents with our technical WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said on Monday in an email | Neutral | The World Health Organization is reviewing a report urging it to update guidance on the novel coronavirus after more than 200 scientists in a letter to the health agency outlined evidence the virus can spread in tiny airborne particles | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-airborne/who-reviewing-report-urging-new-guidance-over-airborne-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN24725J | 2020-07-07 |
| The findings of this survey are deeply the WHOs director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement at the start of the International AIDS conference | Neutral | LONDON More than a third of the worlds countries say they are at risk of running out of lifesaving AIDS drugs because of disruptions to supply lines and other problems caused by the COVID19 pandemic the World Health Organization said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-aids-drugs/life-saving-hiv-drugs-risk-running-out-as-covid-19-hits-supplies-who-idUSKBN24725U | 2020-07-07 |
| The adopted Security Council resolution does not mention the WHO but references a U.N. General Assembly resolution that does | Neutral | NEW YORK The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday finally backed U.N. chief Antonio Guterres March 23 call for a global truce amid the coronavirus pandemic adopting a resolution after months of talks to win a compromise between the United States and China | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-un/months-later-u-n-security-council-backs-call-for-coronavirus-truce-idUSKBN242722 | 2020-07-02 |
| March The new coronavirus appears to be spreading much more rapidly outside China than inside but it can still be contained says the WHO chief Tedros | Negative | Here are some key developments as the novel coronavirus spread around the | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-timeline/timeline-how-the-global-coronavirus-pandemic-unfolded-idUSKBN23Z0UW | 2020-06-29 |
| May Trump says he is terminating the U.S. relationship with the WHO over its handling of the outbreak accusing the UN agency of becoming a puppet organization of China | Negative | Here are some key developments as the novel coronavirus spread around the | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-timeline/timeline-how-the-global-coronavirus-pandemic-unfolded-idUSKBN23Z0UW | 2020-06-29 |
| Certainly in terms of how advanced they are the stage at which they are they are I think probably the leading WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan told a news conference | Positive | The British drugmaker has already begun largescale midstage human trials of the vaccine which was developed by researchers at University of Oxford | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-development/astrazeneca-moderna-ahead-in-covid-19-vaccine-race-who-idUSKBN23X1WA | 2020-06-27 |
| The world faces a shortage of oxygen concentrators as the number of worldwide cases of coronavirus infection nears the 10 million mark the WHO head said | Negative | June 25 Here are some of the main factors that may affect Swiss stocks on | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/markets-swiss-stocks/swiss-stocks-factors-to-watch-on-june-25-idUSL8N2E12MY | 2020-06-25 |
| The results will be the basis of any updates to WHO spokesman Hedinn Halldorsson said | Neutral | JOHANNESBURG South African pharmaceutical major Aspen could provide 10 million dexamethasone tablets within a month Chief Executive Stephen Saad said on Tuesday after the World Health Organisation cautioned about the drugs supply | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-safrica-aspen/south-africas-aspen-could-supply-10-million-dexamethasone-pills-in-covid-19-crisis-idUSKBN23U20U | 2020-06-24 |
| With trials underway around the world to find medicines and a vaccine for COVID19 WHO officials warned that largescale testing would be needed with sideeffects carefully monitored | Negative | GENEVA The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating with Thursdays 150000 new cases the highest in a single day and nearly half of those in the Americas the World Health Organization said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/coronavirus-pandemic-accelerating-with-americas-worst-warns-who-idUSKBN23Q2OV | 2020-06-20 |
| Strains and viruses move around the WHOs top emergencies expert Mike Ryan told a Geneva news conference | Positive | China said on Friday it had identified a European strain of coronavirus as having sparked the recent Beijing outbreak while the World Health Organization said only that it had been imported from outside the city and needed further investigation | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-virus-data/china-sees-european-virus-strain-in-beijing-who-says-more-study-needed-idUSKBN23Q04L | 2020-06-20 |
| Data from those studies showed that hydroxychloroquine does not result in the reduction of mortality of hospitalised COVID19 the WHO statement said | Neutral | After deliberation they have concluded that the hydroxychloroquine arm will be stopped from the Solidarity HenaoRestrepo told a media briefing | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-hydroxychloroq/who-halts-trial-of-hydroxychloroquine-in-covid-19-patients-idUSKBN23O2T0 | 2020-06-18 |
| While cases are still rapidly in many regions of the world there are green shoots of the WHOs Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in an online media briefing | Negative | Signs of hope are starting to show in the fight against the COVID19 pandemic the World Health Organization said on Wednesday but it added that countries must continue to work on prevention measures to limit the spread of the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-dexamethasone/who-sees-green-shoots-of-hope-in-covid-19-pandemic-idUSKBN23O2ME | 2020-06-18 |
| More than 100 cases have been confirmed in the new outbreak but no reported deaths WHO officials said | Positive | GENEVA The origins of a new cluster of coronavirus infections in Beijing are uncertain World Health Organization officials said on Monday but the claim that it might have been caused by imports or packaging of salmon was not the primary | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/chinas-new-virus-outbreak-needs-further-testing-after-hypothesis-on-cause-who-idUSKBN23M2D3 | 2020-06-16 |
| Of 5347 new deaths recorded worldwide 3681 were in the Americas the WHO said on Thursday | Negative | Fears of a second wave of COVID19 infections shut six major food markets in Beijing on Friday while India which opened up this week recorded a record daily increase and half a dozen U.S. states said their hospital beds were filling up fast | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-secondwave/risk-of-new-lockdowns-rises-with-fear-of-second-covid-19-wave-idUSKBN23J187 | 2020-06-13 |
| The disease was highly in Central and South America the WHOs top emergency expert Mike Ryan said highlighting problems in Brazil and Mexico | Negative | The Americas are bearing the brunt of the global coronavirus pandemic at present the World Health Organization said on Friday with North and South America currently having four of the 10 worst hit countries in the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/coronavirus-hitting-the-americas-hardest-says-world-health-organization-idUSKBN23J2K3 | 2020-06-13 |
| It is not clear when Trumps decision on cutting ties will come into effect and the WHO has not confirmed receiving official notification of withdrawal | Negative | The World Health Organization hopes to work side by with the United States to contain an outbreak of Ebola in Congo its chief said on Wednesday despite their differences over the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-hopes-to-work-with-u-s-on-ebola-despite-trump-criticism-idUSKBN23H2VJ | 2020-06-11 |
| Some states were still reporting positive rates above the WHO threshold last week with Maryland at Utah at Nebraska at Virginia at Massachusetts at and Arizona at | Positive | Total U.S. coronavirus cases surpassed 2 million on Wednesday according to a Reuters tally as health officials urge anyone who took part in massive protests for racial justice to get tested | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-casualties/u-s-coronavirus-cases-now-over-2-million-reuters-tally-idUSKBN23H35W | 2020-06-11 |
| President Donald Trump said last month he was ending the U.S. relationship with the WHO over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | The World Health Organization hopes to work side by with the United States to contain an outbreak of Ebola in Congo its chief said on Wednesday despite their differences over the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-hopes-to-work-with-u-s-on-ebola-despite-trump-criticism-idUSKBN23H2VJ | 2020-06-11 |
| Tedros said the meeting with Azar did not mean the WHO was receiving money directly from Washington until now its top donor | Positive | The World Health Organization hopes to work side by with the United States to contain an outbreak of Ebola in Congo its chief said on Wednesday despite their differences over the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-hopes-to-work-with-u-s-on-ebola-despite-trump-criticism-idUSKBN23H2VJ | 2020-06-11 |
| The epicentre of the pandemic is currently in countries of Central South and North America particularly the United States WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said | Negative | GENEVA Some countries have seen in COVID19 cases as lockdowns ease and populations must protect themselves from the coronavirus while authorities continue testing the World Health Organization said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-virus/its-not-over-covid-19-cases-rise-in-some-nations-easing-lockdowns-who-idUSKBN23C1BZ | 2020-06-06 |
| In comments to journalists later Friday Bolsonaro said Brazil will consider leaving the WHO unless it ceases to be a partisan political organization | Negative | BRASILIA President Jair Bolsonaro threatened on Friday to pull Brazil out of the World Health Organization after the U.N. agency warned Latin American governments about the risk of lifting lockdowns before slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus throughout the region | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/bolsonaro-threatens-who-exit-as-covid-19-kills-a-brazilian-per-minute-idUSKBN23C1TF | 2020-06-06 |
| To avoid infection the WHO advised people to maintain a distance of at least 1 metre frequently wash hands and avoid touching their mouth nose and eyes Harris said | Negative | GENEVA Some countries have seen in COVID19 cases as lockdowns ease and populations must protect themselves from the coronavirus while authorities continue testing the World Health Organization said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-virus/its-not-over-covid-19-cases-rise-in-some-nations-easing-lockdowns-who-idUSKBN23C1BZ | 2020-06-06 |
| Melita Vujnovic the World Health Organizations Russia representative said on Wednesday she hoped Moscow would take into account WHO recommendations to prioritise public health when organising largescale events | Positive | MOSCOW The Kremlin defended on Wednesday plans to hold a nationwide vote next month on constitutional reforms that could allow President Vladimir Putin to extend his long rule saying the coronavirus epidemic was expected to ease before it is held | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/kremlin-defends-holding-july-vote-that-could-extend-putins-rule-despite-coronavirus-idUSKBN23A0YY | 2020-06-04 |
| President Donald Trump announced on Friday the United States would cut ties with the WHO accusing the U.N. agency of becoming a puppet of China | Negative | BEIJING China said on Monday the United States was addicted to following a U.S. decision to leave the World Health Organization and said the withdrawal reveals a pursuit of power politics and unilateralism | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-usa/china-says-u-s-addicted-to-quitting-over-plan-to-withdraw-from-who-idUSKBN2381P3 | 2020-06-02 |
| China calls on the international community to provide more political support and funding for the WHO said Zhao | Positive | BEIJING China said on Monday the United States was addicted to following a U.S. decision to leave the World Health Organization and said the withdrawal reveals a pursuit of power politics and unilateralism | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-usa/china-says-u-s-addicted-to-quitting-over-plan-to-withdraw-from-who-idUSKBN2381P3 | 2020-06-02 |
| NATIONS May 29 U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he is terminating the U.S. relationship with the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus saying the WHO had essentially become a puppet organization of China | Negative | NATIONS May 29 U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he is terminating the U.S. relationship with the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus saying the WHO had essentially become a puppet organization of China | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/health-coronavirus-trump-who/trump-says-terminating-us-relationship-with-world-health-organization-over-virus-idUSL1N2DB21X | 2020-05-30 |
| Africa has so far been spared the worst impact of the coronavirus but the World Health Organization is worried the continent could face a silent if its leaders do not prioritize testing for it a WHO envoy said on Monday | Negative | Africa has so far been spared the worst impact of the coronavirus but the World Health Organization is worried the continent could face a silent if its leaders do not prioritize testing for it a WHO envoy said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-fears-silent-virus-epidemic-unless-africa-prioritizes-testing-idUSKBN2311R0 | 2020-05-26 |
| To support the WHO is to support saving lives | Positive | BEIJING The United States should stop wasting time in its fight against the coronavirus and work with China to combat it rather than spreading lies and attacking the country the Chinese governments top diplomat Wang Yi said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-parliament-usa/china-tells-u-s-to-stop-wasting-time-in-coronavirus-battle-idUSKBN230076 | 2020-05-25 |
| Trump who has accused the agency of being China has threatened to permanently halt funding to the WHO and to reconsider his countrys membership of the agency | Negative | BEIJING The United States should stop wasting time in its fight against the coronavirus and work with China to combat it rather than spreading lies and attacking the country the Chinese governments top diplomat Wang Yi said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-parliament-usa/china-tells-u-s-to-stop-wasting-time-in-coronavirus-battle-idUSKBN230076 | 2020-05-25 |
| South America has become a new epicentre of the said Mike Ryan the WHOs top emergencies expert | Positive | Massive disruptions to global immunisation programmes from the COVID19 pandemic have health experts fearful that much of the developing world will not be able to get a vaccine for the new coronavirus even once one is ready | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-immunisation/disruption-to-global-immunization-system-could-delay-covid-19-vaccinations-idUSKBN22Y25S | 2020-05-23 |
| Yemeni authorities have reported 184 coronavirus infections including 30 deaths to the World Health Organization the latest WHO figures showed overnight | Negative | GENEVA The new coronavirus is believed to be spreading throughout Yemen where the health care system has in effect the United Nations said on Friday appealing for urgent funding | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-yemen-un/yemens-health-system-has-in-effect-collapsed-as-covid-spreads-u-n-idUSKBN22Y18V | 2020-05-23 |
| The WHO says it is bound by U.N. protocol and that Taiwan can only be included in WHO meetings if the members make a decision to do so | Neutral | GENEVA The Chinese envoy to the World Health Organization on Tuesday denounced the support shown by the United States and others to Taiwan during its annual ministerial assembly and said that was undermining the global response to the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-china/china-protests-at-support-of-u-s-and-others-for-taiwan-at-who-idUSKBN22V20H | 2020-05-20 |
| Health Secretary Alex Azar did not mention China by name but made clear Washington considered the WHO jointly responsible | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday an independent review of the global coronavirus response would begin as soon as possible and it received backing and a hefty pledge of funds from China in the spotlight as the origin of the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-savages-who-as-it-promises-pandemic-review-but-china-pledges-2-billion-idUSKBN22U111 | 2020-05-19 |
| The amount almost matches the WHOs entire annual programme budget for last year and more than compensates for Trumps freeze of U.S. payments worth about million a year | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday an independent review of the global coronavirus response would begin as soon as possible and it received backing and a hefty pledge of funds from China in the spotlight as the origin of the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-savages-who-as-it-promises-pandemic-review-but-china-pledges-2-billion-idUSKBN22U111 | 2020-05-19 |
| He was addressing a virtual meeting of the WHOs decisionmaking body the World Health Assembly at which Xi said China had acted with openness and transparency and | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday an independent review of the global coronavirus response would begin as soon as possible and it received backing and a hefty pledge of funds from China in the spotlight as the origin of the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-savages-who-as-it-promises-pandemic-review-but-china-pledges-2-billion-idUSKBN22U111 | 2020-05-19 |
| The panel endorsed a review but said conducting it now could hamper the WHOs response to the pandemic | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday an independent review of the global coronavirus response would begin as soon as possible and it received backing and a hefty pledge of funds from China in the spotlight as the origin of the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-savages-who-as-it-promises-pandemic-review-but-china-pledges-2-billion-idUSKBN22U111 | 2020-05-19 |
| Fox News citing a draft letter reported late on Friday that Trump was poised to restore partial funding to the WHO matching Chinas assessed contribution | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday his administration was considering numerous proposals about the World Health Organization including one in which Washington would pay about of its former level | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-trump/trump-says-he-is-considering-restoring-some-funding-to-who-no-decision-made-idUSKBN22S0LD | 2020-05-18 |
| Tedros has a different than Brundtland another WHO official said | Neutral | By Kate Kelland and and Stephanie Nebehay | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-tedros-special/special-report-caught-in-trump-china-feud-who-leader-under-siege-idUSKBN22R1IL | 2020-05-16 |
| During a March 23 call Tedros and Trump had a good and discussion regarding the COVID19 response and nothing was raised on the funding the WHO said in its statement | Positive | By Kate Kelland and and Stephanie Nebehay | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-tedros-special/special-report-caught-in-trump-china-feud-who-leader-under-siege-idUSKBN22R1IL | 2020-05-16 |
| It has been a big blow to WHO and to said the second WHO official | Negative | By Kate Kelland and and Stephanie Nebehay | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-tedros-special/special-report-caught-in-trump-china-feud-who-leader-under-siege-idUSKBN22R1IL | 2020-05-16 |
| Tedros is obviously by Trumps move and feels the WHO is being used as a political the person familiar with the discussions said | Neutral | By Kate Kelland and and Stephanie Nebehay | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-tedros-special/special-report-caught-in-trump-china-feud-who-leader-under-siege-idUSKBN22R1IL | 2020-05-16 |
| The WHO said Tedros has promised to conduct a postpandemic review of the agencys performance including by the WHOs independent oversight body which is standard practice after a health crisis | Negative | By Kate Kelland and and Stephanie Nebehay | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-tedros-special/special-report-caught-in-trump-china-feud-who-leader-under-siege-idUSKBN22R1IL | 2020-05-16 |
| The Trump administration which has come under fire at home for its own handling of the outbreak isnt easing off its recent attacks on the WHO and China | Negative | By Kate Kelland and and Stephanie Nebehay | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-tedros-special/special-report-caught-in-trump-china-feud-who-leader-under-siege-idUSKBN22R1IL | 2020-05-16 |
| The Trump administration will agree to pay up to what China pays in assessed to the WHO Fox News reported quoting from the letter | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trumps administration is set to restore partial funding to the World Health Organization Fox News reported late on Friday citing a draft letter | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/trump-administration-to-restore-partial-funding-to-world-health-organization-fox-news-idUSKBN22S057 | 2020-05-16 |
| Washington has halted funding for the WHO a U.N. agency after President Donald Trump accused it of being and promoting Chinas about the outbreak assertions the WHO denies | Negative | NEW YORK An attempt by Estonia and Germany to overcome an impasse between the United States and China at the United Nations Security Council instead appeared on Thursday to have reinforced their stalemate over action on the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-un/u-s-china-deadlock-over-u-n-coronavirus-action-deepens-idUSKBN22Q3LW | 2020-05-15 |
| ChemRar said its trials fall into the second and third phases of the WHOs overview of how clinical trials work as they are testing people infected with the virus | Negative | MOSCOW A Russian company trialling a drug to treat the new coronavirus said on Thursday it was testing it on infected patients in what it called second and thirdphase clinical trials based on World Health Organisation criteria | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-drug/russias-chemrar-says-in-second-third-phase-testing-of-coronavirus-drug-favipiravir-idUSKBN22Q2SW | 2020-05-15 |
| We need to get into the mindset that it is going to take some time to come out of this WHO epidemiologist Maria van Kerkhove told the briefing | Neutral | GENEVA The coronavirus that causes COVID19 could become endemic like HIV the World Health Organization said on Wednesday warning against any attempt to predict how long it would keep circulating and calling for a massive to counter it | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-briefing/this-virus-may-never-go-away-who-says-idUSKBN22P2IJ | 2020-05-14 |
| The virus may never go away WHO | Negative | to add dropped name in paragraph | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/refile-global-markets-asian-stocks-drop-as-virus-recovery-begins-to-look-distant-idUSL4N2CW0OI | 2020-05-14 |
| Democrats have criticized Trump for attacking the WHO during a global health crisis while saying it needs reforms | Negative | WASHINGTON The leaders of U.S. congressional foreign affairs committees wrote to nearly 60 countries on Friday asking them to support Taiwans participation in the World Health Organization citing the need for the broadest effort possible to fight the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-taiwan/u-s-lawmakers-urge-support-for-taiwan-at-who-as-u-s-criticizes-china-idUSKBN22L00T | 2020-05-12 |
| Last month Trump announced that he was suspending aid to the WHO accusing it of being and promoting Chinas about the outbreak assertions the WHO denies | Negative | WASHINGTON The leaders of U.S. congressional foreign affairs committees wrote to nearly 60 countries on Friday asking them to support Taiwans participation in the World Health Organization citing the need for the broadest effort possible to fight the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-taiwan/u-s-lawmakers-urge-support-for-taiwan-at-who-as-u-s-criticizes-china-idUSKBN22L00T | 2020-05-12 |
| Taiwan has been seeking to join a ministerial meeting this month of the WHOs decisionmaking body the World Health Assembly with backing from Washington and several U.S. allies | Positive | WASHINGTON The leaders of U.S. congressional foreign affairs committees wrote to nearly 60 countries on Friday asking them to support Taiwans participation in the World Health Organization citing the need for the broadest effort possible to fight the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-taiwan/u-s-lawmakers-urge-support-for-taiwan-at-who-as-u-s-criticizes-china-idUSKBN22L00T | 2020-05-12 |
| Testing capabilities are inadequate but the WHO has also urged local authorities to transparently report confirmed cases | Negative | ADEN Yemeni authorities declared Aden interim seat of the Saudibacked government an city on Monday after the number of coronavirus cases there jumped and clashes erupted elsewhere in the south between separatists and government forces | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-yemen/yemen-declares-aden-an-infested-city-as-coronavirus-spreads-clashes-erupt-idUSKBN22N07K | 2020-05-12 |
| Taiwan has argued that its exclusion from the WHO has created a dangerous gap in the global fight against the coronavirus | Negative | WASHINGTON The leaders of U.S. congressional foreign affairs committees wrote to nearly 60 countries on Friday asking them to support Taiwans participation in the World Health Organization citing the need for the broadest effort possible to fight the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-taiwan/u-s-lawmakers-urge-support-for-taiwan-at-who-as-u-s-criticizes-china-idUSKBN22L00T | 2020-05-12 |
| Taiwan is excluded from the WHO due to the objections of China which views the island as one of its provinces | Negative | WELLINGTON New Zealands foreign minister on Tuesday said the country has to stand up for itself after China warned its backing of Taiwans participation at the World Health Organization could damage bilateral ties | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-newzealand-china/new-zealand-still-supports-taiwan-at-who-despite-chinese-rebuke-idUSKBN22O0CF | 2020-05-12 |
| Taiwan which is not a member of the United Nations has been excluded from the WHO which is a U.N. agency due to objections from China | Negative | WASHINGTON The leaders of U.S. congressional foreign affairs committees wrote to nearly 60 countries on Friday asking them to support Taiwans participation in the World Health Organization citing the need for the broadest effort possible to fight the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-taiwan/u-s-lawmakers-urge-support-for-taiwan-at-who-as-u-s-criticizes-china-idUSKBN22L00T | 2020-05-12 |
| China has denounced Taiwans WHO attempts as a political stunt aimed at promoting the islands formal independence and said it will fail in its efforts | Negative | BEIJING China berated New Zealand on Monday for its support for Taiwans participation at the World Health Organization saying the country should stop making wrong on the issue to avoid damaging bilateral ties | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-taiwan-new-zealand-mofa/china-berates-new-zealand-over-support-for-taiwan-at-who-idUSKBN22N18E | 2020-05-11 |
| This years international atmosphere is relatively beneficial for Taiwans participation and so the pressure on the WHO secretariat and China is greater and Wu said | Negative | BEIJING China berated New Zealand on Monday for its support for Taiwans participation at the World Health Organization saying the country should stop making wrong on the issue to avoid damaging bilateral ties | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-taiwan-new-zealand-mofa/china-berates-new-zealand-over-support-for-taiwan-at-who-idUSKBN22N18E | 2020-05-11 |
| The rule we have in WHO and other UN agencies is that when a member state reports we post as Tedros said | Neutral | The World Health Organization warned on Wednesday that countries emerging from restrictions to halt the new coronavirus must proceed extremely or risk a rapid rise in new cases | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-warns-against-rushed-end-to-coronavirus-lockdowns-idUSKBN22I2DZ | 2020-05-07 |
| Indigenous leaders in Brazil have asked the WHO to set up an emergency fund to help protect their communities | Negative | More than 3 | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-the-new-coronavirus-idUSKBN22F0AI | 2020-05-06 |
| The disease later identified as COVID19 was first reported by Chinese authorities to the WHO on Dec | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that a report that COVID19 had emerged in December in France sooner than previously thought was not and urged countries to investigate any other early suspicious cases | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-urges-countries-to-investigate-early-covid-19-cases-idUSKBN22H134 | 2020-05-06 |
| This gives a whole new picture on WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told a U.N. briefing in Geneva referring to the French report | Neutral | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that a report that COVID19 had emerged in December in France sooner than previously thought was not and urged countries to investigate any other early suspicious cases | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-urges-countries-to-investigate-early-covid-19-cases-idUSKBN22H134 | 2020-05-06 |
| Trump has halted U.S. funding to the WHO and accused of it being Chinacentric | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged China to be transparent about the origins of the novel coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than a quarter of a million people since it started in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-origin/trump-urges-china-to-reveal-all-about-origin-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN22H1Y5 | 2020-05-06 |
| Trump has said he will cut off funding for the World Health Organization which he called very something WHO officials have denied | Negative | BEIJING An internal Chinese report warns that Beijing faces a rising wave of hostility in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that could tip relations with the United States into confrontation people familiar with the paper told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-sentiment-ex/exclusive-internal-chinese-report-warns-beijing-faces-tiananmen-like-global-backlash-over-virus-idUSKBN22G19C | 2020-05-05 |
| It is a real Joenia Wapichana the leader of the appeal to the WHO and the first indigenous woman elected to Brazils Congress told Reuters | Positive | BRASILIA Indigenous leaders in Brazil asked the World Health Organization on Monday to set up an emergency fund to help protect their communities from the threat of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-indigenous/brazils-indigenous-people-call-for-who-emergency-fund-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKBN22H09W | 2020-05-05 |
| Scientists have advised the WHO that genome sequencing shows the virus to be of natural | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday that comments by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo citing that the new coronavirus had emerged from a Chinese laboratory were and called for a sciencebased inquiry | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-says-pompeo-remarks-on-virus-origin-speculative-seeks-data-idUSKBN22G29E | 2020-05-05 |
| Steven Solomon the WHOs principal legal officer said two countries had proposed consideration of letting Taiwan attend the WHOs May 1819 annual health assembly as an observer | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday that comments by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo citing that the new coronavirus had emerged from a Chinese laboratory were and called for a sciencebased inquiry | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-says-pompeo-remarks-on-virus-origin-speculative-seeks-data-idUSKBN22G29E | 2020-05-05 |
| Parts of the world are starting to emerge from the COVID19 pandemic and to cautiously resume some sort of normal life but the new coronavirus will pose significant risks until vaccines are developed the WHOs top emergencies expert said on Sunday | Positive | Parts of the world are starting to emerge from the COVID19 pandemic and to cautiously resume some sort of normal life but the new coronavirus will pose significant risks until vaccines are developed the WHOs top emergencies expert said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-ryan/whos-ryan-says-world-is-in-fight-of-our-lives-but-there-is-hope-idUSKBN22F0PG | 2020-05-04 |
| If we are to reach a normal in many ways Sweden represents a future said Mike Ryan the WHOs top emergencies expert | Positive | STOCKHOLM Per Arne Fredin has been at the sharp end of Swedens policy to buck the norm and avoid a COVID19 lockdown a decision that has been hailed as both visionary and irresponsible by public figures around the world | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-sweden-economy/as-sweden-goes-it-alone-a-covid-19-survivor-and-trucking-boss-balances-risk-idUSKBN22D4KN | 2020-05-01 |
| The WHOs clinical network has discussed the report from Britain about a small number of children with an inflammatory response WHO epidemiologist Dr | Positive | GENEVA The vast of children with COVID19 have mild cases and recover completely but a small number in a few countries have developed a rare inflammatory syndrome the World Health Organization said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/covid-19-complication-seen-in-children-is-rare-who-says-idUSKBN22B2KD | 2020-04-30 |
| Adisasmito said the government was not hiding data and that he was unaware the WHO had called for suspected COVID19 death statistics to be made public | Negative | More than 2200 Indonesians have died with acute symptoms of COVID19 but were not recorded as victims of the disease a Reuters review of data from 16 of the countrys 34 provinces showed | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-indonesia-casualti/exclusive-more-than-2200-indonesians-have-died-with-coronavirus-symptoms-data-shows-idUSKCN22A04N | 2020-04-28 |
| The United States is the WHOs biggest donor | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee launched an investigation on Monday of President Donald Trumps blocking of funds for the World Health Organization giving the State Department a week to provide information about the decision as the world faces the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-usa/u-s-house-committee-launches-probe-of-trump-who-aid-cutoff-idUSKCN2292M6 | 2020-04-28 |
| But Trumps fellow Republicans have largely backed the president praising his handling of the health crisis and calling on WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to resign | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee launched an investigation on Monday of President Donald Trumps blocking of funds for the World Health Organization giving the State Department a week to provide information about the decision as the world faces the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-usa/u-s-house-committee-launches-probe-of-trump-who-aid-cutoff-idUSKCN2292M6 | 2020-04-28 |
| We are facing a common threat which we can only defeat with a common WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said as he opened the virtual meeting | Positive | World leaders pledged on Friday to accelerate work on tests drugs and vaccines against COVID19 and to share them around the globe but the United States did not take part in the launch of the World Health Organization initiative | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/world-leaders-launch-plan-to-speed-covid-19-drugs-vaccine-u-s-stays-away-idUSKCN2261M7 | 2020-04-25 |
| We remain deeply concerned about the WHOs effectiveness given that its gross failures helped fuel the current he later said | Negative | World leaders pledged on Friday to accelerate work on tests drugs and vaccines against COVID19 and to share them around the globe but the United States did not take part in the launch of the World Health Organization initiative | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/world-leaders-launch-plan-to-speed-covid-19-drugs-vaccine-u-s-stays-away-idUSKCN2261M7 | 2020-04-25 |
| U.S. President Donald Trump has lambasted the WHO as being slow to react to the outbreak and being and announced a suspension of funding | Negative | World leaders pledged on Friday to accelerate work on tests drugs and vaccines against COVID19 and to share them around the globe but the United States did not take part in the launch of the World Health Organization initiative | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/world-leaders-launch-plan-to-speed-covid-19-drugs-vaccine-u-s-stays-away-idUSKCN2261M7 | 2020-04-25 |
| Tedros has steadfastly defended the WHOs handling of the pandemic and repeatedly committed to conducting a postpandemic evaluation as the agency does with all crises | Neutral | World leaders pledged on Friday to accelerate work on tests drugs and vaccines against COVID19 and to share them around the globe but the United States did not take part in the launch of the World Health Organization initiative | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/world-leaders-launch-plan-to-speed-covid-19-drugs-vaccine-u-s-stays-away-idUSKCN2261M7 | 2020-04-25 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the COVID19 pandemic shows the need to overhaul the World Health Organization warning that Washington may never restore WHO funding and could even work to set up an alternative to the U.N. body instead | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the COVID19 pandemic shows the need to overhaul the World Health Organization warning that Washington may never restore WHO funding and could even work to set up an alternative to the U.N. body instead | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-pompeo/pompeo-says-u-s-may-never-restore-who-funds-after-cutoff-over-pandemic-idUSKCN2252GR | 2020-04-24 |
| The initiative is expected to include a stockpile for use in poor countries such as the WHO currently has for influenza vaccines should a flu virus evolve into a pandemic | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization said it would announce a landmark on Friday to speed development of safe effective drugs tests and vaccines to prevent diagnose and treat COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-covid/who-to-launch-initiative-to-share-covid-19-drugs-tests-and-vaccines-statement-idUSKCN22537Z | 2020-04-24 |
| President Donald Trump said last week that U.S. would halt funding to the WHO over its handling of the pandemic potentially cutting off roughly of its budget | Negative | ADDIS ABABA African nations that lack ventilators to treat COVID19 patients will receive some from the Jack Ma Foundation an African Union official said on Thursday as Nigeria stressed Africas dependence on a properlyfunded World Health Organization help it fight the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa/african-nations-to-get-ventilators-from-jack-ma-foundation-stress-need-for-who-help-idUSKCN22522D | 2020-04-24 |
| The United States has been the biggest overall donor to the WHO contributing over million in 2019 roughly of its budget | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Democrats accused the Trump administration of trying to the World Health Organization to distract from its handling of the coronavirus outbreak and urged an immediate restoration of funding to the U.N. health body according to a letter seen by Reuters on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-congress/u-s-democrats-back-scapegoat-who-as-trump-administration-keeps-up-attacks-idUSKCN2252RO | 2020-04-24 |
| Cui said China had been open pointing to calls between the Chinese government and both Washington and the WHO in early January as well as daily briefings on the virus | Positive | WASHINGTON Chinas ambassador to the United States took a thinly veiled swipe at U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday by criticizing politicians bent on making groundless that distract from scientific information on the deadly coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-usa/chinese-envoy-takes-veiled-swipe-at-trump-for-politicizing-coronavirus-idUSKCN2232UA | 2020-04-22 |
| It seeks unspecified damages for what they called WHOs harm to the roughly 756000 adult residents in Westchester County who would make up the class | Negative | NEW YORK Residents of a suburban New York City county that was one of the earliest U.S. hot spots for the coronavirus sued the World Health Organization on Monday accusing it of gross negligence in covering up and responding to the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-westchester-lawsui/suburban-nyc-county-residents-sue-who-over-coronavirus-pandemic-response-idUSKBN2222P1 | 2020-04-21 |
| But Japan is not yet in the stage of a largescale community outbreak Takeshi Kasai WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific told an online press conference | Negative | BEIJING The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that it was concerned about the increasing number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in Japan | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-japan/who-says-concerned-about-rising-confirmed-cases-in-japan-idUSKBN2230BV | 2020-04-21 |
| She also said the complaint did not detail the alleged harm suffered by the individual plaintiffs or show what legal duty the WHO owed to them | Neutral | NEW YORK Residents of a suburban New York City county that was one of the earliest U.S. hot spots for the coronavirus sued the World Health Organization on Monday accusing it of gross negligence in covering up and responding to the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-westchester-lawsui/suburban-nyc-county-residents-sue-who-over-coronavirus-pandemic-response-idUSKBN2222P1 | 2020-04-21 |
| Having U.S. CDC staff means there is nothing hidden from the U.S. from day Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus WHO directorgeneral told a news conference | Neutral | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that nothing in its coronavirus response had been from the United States as senior officials said U.S. technical experts had been an important part of the WHOs effort | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/nothing-hidden-from-member-states-cdc-experts-on-board-who-chief-idUSKBN2222HD | 2020-04-21 |
| More than 600 hospitals are now ready to enrol patients in WHOs socalled Solidarity Trial of drugs against the disease he added | Negative | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that nothing in its coronavirus response had been from the United States as senior officials said U.S. technical experts had been an important part of the WHOs effort | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/nothing-hidden-from-member-states-cdc-experts-on-board-who-chief-idUSKBN2222HD | 2020-04-21 |
| As of now no conclusions could be made said Takeshi Kasai WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific | Neutral | BEIJING The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that it is not possible to determine the precise source of the new coronavirus at this stage | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-china/who-says-currently-not-possible-to-determine-precise-source-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN2230CW | 2020-04-21 |
| We are using all the options to get him out of the said Boubacar Diallo deputy incident manager for the WHOs Ebola response operation | Negative | BENI Democratic Republic of Congo An Ebola flareup in eastern Congo may spread again after a patient escaped from a clinic complicating efforts to contain the disease that has infected six people since last week the World Health Organization said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-ebola-congo/escape-of-ebola-patient-in-congo-sparks-fear-of-further-infection-idUSKBN2210R6 | 2020-04-20 |
| Trump said this week he would halt U.S. funding to the Genevabased WHO over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed support on Friday for the role of the World Health Organization in the campaign against the new coronavirus in contrast with U.S. President Donald Trump who has vowed to cut U.S. funding to the agency | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-abe/japan-pm-abe-backs-who-on-coronavirus-in-contrast-with-ally-trump-idUSKBN21Z1JF | 2020-04-18 |
| There are various views on the WHO such as it may not be politically Abe said but he rejected the idea of Japan reducing its funding | Negative | TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed support on Friday for the role of the World Health Organization in the campaign against the new coronavirus in contrast with U.S. President Donald Trump who has vowed to cut U.S. funding to the agency | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-abe/japan-pm-abe-backs-who-on-coronavirus-in-contrast-with-ally-trump-idUSKBN21Z1JF | 2020-04-18 |
| We must firmly back the WHO for now | Positive | TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed support on Friday for the role of the World Health Organization in the campaign against the new coronavirus in contrast with U.S. President Donald Trump who has vowed to cut U.S. funding to the agency | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-abe/japan-pm-abe-backs-who-on-coronavirus-in-contrast-with-ally-trump-idUSKBN21Z1JF | 2020-04-18 |
| Europe is in eye of the storm with the number of cases nearing a million and should move with extreme caution when considering easing lockdowns the WHOs regional director said | Negative | Reported cases of the coronavirus crossed 2 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKCN21Y0I1 | 2020-04-17 |
| Polio eradication remains a major WHO programme and the United States is a key contributor to this effort | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trump has told his administration to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-funding-explai/explainer-what-the-u-s-funds-freeze-could-mean-for-who-and-its-work-idUSKCN21X2A0 | 2020-04-16 |
| U.S. President Donald Trumps move to halt funding to the WHO over its handling of the pandemic prompted condemnation from world leaders | Negative | Reported cases of the coronavirus crossed 2 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKCN21Y0I1 | 2020-04-16 |
| The sources said the U.S. Agency for International Development had been due to make a voluntary payment last week of million to the WHO for and it was now blocked | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States could redirect to other aid groups some million it would have paid the World Health Organization this year senior Trump administration officials said on Wednesday after President Donald Trump halted funding for the U.N. agency over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/u-s-funds-that-would-have-gone-to-who-could-be-given-to-aid-groups-trump-officials-idUSKCN21X2Z3 | 2020-04-16 |
| Washington has already paid the Genevabased WHO some million this year the officials said half of what it is required to pay for 2020 known as an assessed contribution | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States could redirect to other aid groups some million it would have paid the World Health Organization this year senior Trump administration officials said on Wednesday after President Donald Trump halted funding for the U.N. agency over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/u-s-funds-that-would-have-gone-to-who-could-be-given-to-aid-groups-trump-officials-idUSKCN21X2Z3 | 2020-04-16 |
| The United States is the WHOs biggest overall donor | Positive | MOSCOW Russia on Wednesday condemned U.S President Donald Trump for cutting funding to the World Health Organisation saying his decision was selfish and hurt a body that many countries were looking to for leadership amid the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-trump/russia-says-trump-move-to-cut-who-funding-over-coronavirus-is-selfish-idUSKCN21X187 | 2020-04-16 |
| Heres what we do and dont know about what this might mean for the WHO and its programmes around the | Neutral | U.S. President Donald Trump has told his administration to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-funding-explai/explainer-what-the-u-s-funds-freeze-could-mean-for-who-and-its-work-idUSKCN21X2A0 | 2020-04-16 |
| It was not immediately clear how much voluntary funding the United States had already provided for WHO programs in 2020 | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States could redirect to other aid groups some million it would have paid the World Health Organization this year senior Trump administration officials said on Wednesday after President Donald Trump halted funding for the U.N. agency over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/u-s-funds-that-would-have-gone-to-who-could-be-given-to-aid-groups-trump-officials-idUSKCN21X2Z3 | 2020-04-16 |
| This is of course an important time for the WHO to be doing its job | Positive | LONDON China is trying to exploit the global crisis triggered by the novel coronavirus outbreak by wresting control of companies such as Imagination Technologies and changing the way the internet works a senior British lawmaker said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-britain/british-lawmaker-says-china-is-trying-to-exploit-the-covid-19-crisis-idUSKCN21X13H | 2020-04-16 |
| socalled assessed from member states which go towards keeping up the WHOs core functions | Neutral | U.S. President Donald Trump has told his administration to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-funding-explai/explainer-what-the-u-s-funds-freeze-could-mean-for-who-and-its-work-idUSKCN21X2A0 | 2020-04-16 |
| The senior administration officials said the U.S. Congress was unable to stop them from redirecting WHO funding elsewhere | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States could redirect to other aid groups some million it would have paid the World Health Organization this year senior Trump administration officials said on Wednesday after President Donald Trump halted funding for the U.N. agency over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/u-s-funds-that-would-have-gone-to-who-could-be-given-to-aid-groups-trump-officials-idUSKCN21X2Z3 | 2020-04-16 |
| I understand his concerns with the way that the WHO has failed to call out China or indeed recognise the success that has been going on in Taiwan amongst other places | Negative | LONDON China is trying to exploit the global crisis triggered by the novel coronavirus outbreak by wresting control of companies such as Imagination Technologies and changing the way the internet works a senior British lawmaker said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-britain/british-lawmaker-says-china-is-trying-to-exploit-the-covid-19-crisis-idUSKCN21X13H | 2020-04-16 |
| Almost billion of the 20202021 budget is earmarked for WHO operations across Africa the worlds poorest continent with the highest rates of underfive mortality from vaccinepreventable diseases | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump has told his administration to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-funding-explai/explainer-what-the-u-s-funds-freeze-could-mean-for-who-and-its-work-idUSKCN21X2A0 | 2020-04-16 |
| Some Democrats disagreed promising they would try to include funding for the WHO in the next coronavirus relief bill | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States could redirect to other aid groups some million it would have paid the World Health Organization this year senior Trump administration officials said on Wednesday after President Donald Trump halted funding for the U.N. agency over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/u-s-funds-that-would-have-gone-to-who-could-be-given-to-aid-groups-trump-officials-idUSKCN21X2Z3 | 2020-04-16 |
| Trump also said he was halting U.S. funding to the WHO which he criticized for not sharing information in a timely manner to prevent the outbreak | Negative | U.S. coronavirus deaths set a singleday record on Tuesday a grim milestone as the country debated how to reopen its economy and as Spain and Austria allowed partial returns to work but the UK France and India extended lockdowns | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus/u-s-deaths-set-record-daily-increase-spain-and-austria-ease-restrictions-idUSKCN21W16E | 2020-04-15 |
| The United States is the biggest overall donor to the WHO contributing more than million in 2019 roughly of its budget | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday halted funding to the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic drawing condemnation from infectious disease experts as the global death toll continued to mount | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus/trump-cuts-who-funding-over-coronavirus-global-death-toll-mounts-idUSKCN21X0AL | 2020-04-15 |
| The United States is the biggest overall donor to the Genevabased WHO contributing more than million in 2019 roughly of its budget | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed his administration to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-who-reaction/factbox-global-reaction-to-trump-withdrawing-who-funding-idUSKCN21X0CN | 2020-04-15 |
| China has accused Taiwan of attacking the World Health Organization seeking independence and conniving with internet users to spread racist comments after the WHO chief said racist slurs against him had come from the island | Negative | China has accused Taiwan of attacking the World Health Organization seeking independence and conniving with internet users to spread racist comments after the WHO chief said racist slurs against him had come from the island | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan-who/china-says-taiwan-attacks-on-who-are-venomous-aimed-at-independence-idUSKCN21S01P | 2020-04-10 |
| Falsely claiming to be Taiwanese and openly admitting to racist attacks on WHO Director General Tedros and begging forgiveness seriously damages our countrys international it added in a statement | Negative | China has accused Taiwan of attacking the World Health Organization seeking independence and conniving with internet users to spread racist comments after the WHO chief said racist slurs against him had come from the island | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan-who/china-says-taiwan-attacks-on-who-are-venomous-aimed-at-independence-idUSKCN21S01P | 2020-04-10 |
| Cats can become infected with the new coronavirus but dogs appear not to be vulnerable according to a study published on Wednesday prompting the WHO to say it will take a closer look at transmission of the virus between humans and pets | Negative | Cats can become infected with the new coronavirus but dogs appear not to be vulnerable according to a study published on Wednesday prompting the WHO to say it will take a closer look at transmission of the virus between humans and pets | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-pets/cats-can-catch-coronavirus-study-finds-prompting-who-investigation-idUSKCN21Q3DJ | 2020-04-09 |
| Pompeo was asked at the coronavirus briefing whether it was time to change the WHO leadership and This is not the time to be doing that kind of change | Negative | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization gave a strident defence of his agencys handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday in response to U.S. President Donald Trumps criticism and suggestions that Washington could review its funding for the agency | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-head-defends-handling-of-coronavirus-pandemic-against-trump-criticism-idUSKCN21Q2UJ | 2020-04-09 |
| Trump told the daily White House briefing on the coronavirus that Beijings payment was a small fraction of Washingtons WHO contribution and that was not fair at all | Negative | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization gave a strident defence of his agencys handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday in response to U.S. President Donald Trumps criticism and suggestions that Washington could review its funding for the agency | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-head-defends-handling-of-coronavirus-pandemic-against-trump-criticism-idUSKCN21Q2UJ | 2020-04-09 |
| Republican Senator Lindsey Graham a close ally of Trump vowed there would not be any funding for the WHO in the next Senate appropriations bill | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump sharply criticized the World Health Organization on Tuesday accusing it of being too focused on China and issuing bad advice during the new coronavirus outbreak and saying he would put a hold on U.S. funding for the agency | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/trump-says-who-is-china-centric-really-blew-it-on-coronavirus-idUSKBN21P2E1 | 2020-04-08 |
| U.S. conservatives have increasingly criticized the WHO during the global pandemic saying it relied on faulty data from China about the outbreak of the novel coronavirus | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump sharply criticized the World Health Organization on Tuesday accusing it of being too focused on China and issuing bad advice during the new coronavirus outbreak and saying he would put a hold on U.S. funding for the agency | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/trump-says-who-is-china-centric-really-blew-it-on-coronavirus-idUSKBN21P2E1 | 2020-04-08 |
| Last week Republican Senator Marco Rubio called for the resignation of Tedros saying he allowed Beijing to use the WHO to mislead the global community | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump sharply criticized the World Health Organization on Tuesday accusing it of being too focused on China and issuing bad advice during the new coronavirus outbreak and saying he would put a hold on U.S. funding for the agency | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/trump-says-who-is-china-centric-really-blew-it-on-coronavirus-idUSKBN21P2E1 | 2020-04-08 |
| Most Middle Eastern countries are seeing worrying daily increases in cases but the region still has a chance to contain its spread a senior WHO official said | Negative | The number of confirmed infections of the novel coronavirus exceeded 1 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21P389 | 2020-04-08 |
| In the past week million had been raised for WHOs solidarity fund the American pop star added | Positive | The World Health Organization voiced concern on Monday that the wearing of medical masks by the general public could exacerbate the shortage for health workers on the front lines of the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/masks-should-be-prioritized-for-health-workers-to-avoid-shortage-against-coronavirus-who-idUSKBN21O2GV | 2020-04-07 |
| Taiwans is excluded from the WHO due to diplomatic pressure from China which considers it merely a wayward province with no right to the trappings of state | Negative | Taiwan and the United States this week discussed how to get closer between the island and the World Health Organization during the coronavirus outbreak drawing a rebuke from China for political of the epidemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan-usa/taiwan-talks-who-role-with-u-s-china-denounces-manipulation-idUSKBN21L12V | 2020-04-04 |
| Taiwans Foreign Ministry expressed thanks to the United States on Friday for its continued taking of concrete actions to support Taiwans participation in the WHO and other international | Positive | Taiwan and the United States this week discussed how to get closer between the island and the World Health Organization during the coronavirus outbreak drawing a rebuke from China for political of the epidemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan-usa/taiwan-talks-who-role-with-u-s-china-denounces-manipulation-idUSKBN21L12V | 2020-04-04 |
| The number of critically ill patients is estimated to reach the peak within the next week she said adding that the WHO projections could change | Negative | KUALA LUMPUR The number of coronavirus cases in Malaysia is expected to peak in midApril and there are signs of a flattening of the infection curve the World Health Organization said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-malaysia/who-expects-malaysias-coronavirus-cases-to-peak-in-mid-april-idUSKBN21K0IZ | 2020-04-02 |
| BEIJING The coronavirus epidemic is far from in the AsiaPacific region and current measures to curb the spread of the virus are buying time for countries to prepare for largescale community transmissions a WHO official said on Tuesday | Negative | BEIJING The coronavirus epidemic is far from in the AsiaPacific region and current measures to curb the spread of the virus are buying time for countries to prepare for largescale community transmissions a WHO official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-asia/coronavirus-epidemic-far-from-over-in-asia-who-official-idUSKBN21I0EI | 2020-03-31 |
| The WHO does not expect any country to be safe as the coronavirus will eventually get everywhere said WHO technical adviser Matthew Griffith | Negative | BEIJING The coronavirus epidemic is far from in the AsiaPacific region and current measures to curb the spread of the virus are buying time for countries to prepare for largescale community transmissions a WHO official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-asia/coronavirus-epidemic-far-from-over-in-asia-who-official-idUSKBN21I0EI | 2020-03-31 |
| The epidemic in the AsiaPacific region was far from another WHO official added | Negative | China will delay its national college entrance exam by a month as it grapples with a coronavirus pandemic as travellers returning from abroad are fuelling new cases and boosting concern over the threat of a second wave of infections | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-toll/china-delays-college-entrance-exam-as-fears-grow-over-risk-of-coronavirus-second-wave-idUSKBN21I036 | 2020-03-31 |
| It has been a very dramatic Matshidiso Moeti the WHO Africa head told a media teleconference earlier on Thursday | Negative | NAIROBI About half of the countries in subSaharan Africa still have a opportunity to curb the spread of coronavirus in the local population a World Health Organisation regional official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa/africas-window-to-curb-coronavirus-narrowing-every-day-who-idUSKBN21D2G9 | 2020-03-27 |
| ZURICH The World Health Organization is impressed by the offers of technology to help fight the coronavirus but privacy and human rights must be protected Michael Ryan WHOs top emergencies expert said on Wednesday | Positive | ZURICH The World Health Organization is impressed by the offers of technology to help fight the coronavirus but privacy and human rights must be protected Michael Ryan WHOs top emergencies expert said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-technology/technical-help-offered-to-fight-virus-must-safeguard-privacy-rights-who-idUSKBN21C37N | 2020-03-26 |
| Urbelis said he picked up on the activity around March 13 when a group of hackers hed been following activated a malicious site mimicking the WHOs internal email system | Negative | Elite hackers tried to break into the World Health Organization earlier this month sources told Reuters part of what a senior agency official said was a more than twofold increase in cyberattacks | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-hack-exclusive/exclusive-elite-hackers-target-who-as-coronavirus-cyberattacks-spike-idUSKBN21A3BN | 2020-03-24 |
| In fact there are currently no legitimate COVID19 vaccines and the WHO is not distributing any such the Justice Department said in a statement | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Justice Department on Sunday said it cracked down on a website that was fraudulently offering to sell vaccines for warding off the deadly coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-fraud/u-s-says-website-offered-phony-coronavirus-vaccines-idUSKBN21915G | 2020-03-23 |
| The Africa CDC set up by the African Union in 2017 has been working with the WHO to strengthen emergency coordination improve testing and surveillance and equip treatment centers | Positive | When a passenger arriving from Brussels at Cameroons Yaounde Nsimalen airport on Saturday was found to have a temperature health officials say he was whisked to a hospital and diagnosed inside four hours as the countrys fourth case of coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa-response/armed-with-lessons-from-ebola-africa-braces-for-coronavirus-surge-idUSKBN2142RM | 2020-03-18 |
| Facebook will match up to million in donations while Alphabet Incs Google will donate million the WHO and UN Foundation later announced in a joint statement | Positive | GENEVA Europe has now become the epicenter of a coronavirus pandemic that has claimed 5000 lives around the world a tragic the World Health Organization said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/europe-is-epicenter-of-coronavirus-pandemic-who-idUSKBN2102Q0 | 2020-03-14 |
| My advice is calling for all countries to follow WHO instructions and intervene on a national he said | Negative | BEIJING The global coronavirus pandemic could be over by June if countries mobilize to fight it a senior Chinese medical adviser said on Thursday as China declared the peak had passed there and new cases in Hubei fell to single digits for the first time | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china/coronavirus-pandemic-could-be-over-by-june-if-countries-act-says-chinese-adviser-idUSKBN20Z046 | 2020-03-13 |
| Worldwide traditional medicine including Chinese practices generate some billion a year according to a WHO Bulletin | Positive | NEW YORK New York City acupuncturist and herbalist Clayton Shiu says demand for traditional Chinese remedies has surged at his practice since March 1 the day New York announced its first case of the novel coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-herbs/u-s-coronavirus-threat-fuels-demand-for-traditional-herbal-remedies-idUSKBN20W2GR | 2020-03-10 |
| of confirmed cases of COVID19 the disease caused by the virus have died far above seasonal flus fatality rate of under the WHO said this week | Negative | ANGELES Twentyone people aboard a cruise ship that was barred from docking in San Francisco have tested positive for coronavirus U.S. officials said on Friday adding to the more than 100000 cases of the fastspreading illness across the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/coronavirus-infects-100000-plus-worldwide-21-cases-found-on-ship-off-san-francisco-idUSKBN20T1G4 | 2020-03-07 |
| We are now on the verge of reaching 100000 confirmed WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a daily news briefing | Positive | All countries should make containing the outbreak of COVID19 their top priority the World Health Organization said on Friday pointing to Iran national action to combat one of the worlds worst outbreaks after a slow start | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-priority/who-urges-countries-to-make-containing-coronavirus-highest-priority-idUSKBN20T2BH | 2020-03-07 |
| of confirmed cases of COVID19 have died far above seasonal flus fatality rate of under but the virus can be contained the WHO chief said on Tuesday | Negative | The World Health Organization on Tuesday warned of a global shortage and price gouging for protective equipment to fight the fastspreading coronavirus and asked companies and governments to increase production by as the death toll from the respiratory illness mounted | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/who-warns-of-global-shortage-of-medical-equipment-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKBN20Q14O | 2020-03-04 |
| No country should assume it wont get cases that would be a fatal mistake quite WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva | Negative | By David Morgan and Michael Erman | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/china-health-usa/u-s-officials-say-they-are-ramping-up-efforts-to-guard-against-coronavirus-idUSL2N2AR1GH | 2020-02-28 |
| Our biggest concern continues to be the potential for COVID19 to spread in countries with weaker health WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said | Negative | BEIJING China reported a sharp fall in new deaths and cases of the coronavirus on Saturday but world health officials warned it was too early to make predictions about the outbreak as new infections continued to rise in other countries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/new-coronavirus-cases-fall-in-china-but-who-concerned-by-global-spread-idUSKCN20G05W | 2020-02-23 |
| We still have a chance to contain Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus WHO directorgeneral said on Friday | Neutral | China reported a decrease in the number of new deaths and new cases of the coronavirus on Saturday while its central bank predicted a limited shortterm economic impact and said the country was confident in winning the fight against the epidemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/china-reports-fall-in-coronavirus-cases-says-economy-resilient-but-infections-rising-elsewhere-idUSKCN20G05W | 2020-02-22 |
| He said it was very that Iran had reported 18 cases and four deaths in just the past two days adding that the WHO was supplying testing kits to Tehran | Negative | The window of opportunity to contain wider international spread of the epidemic of the new coronavirus disease is closing the World Health Organization warned on Friday after cases were reported in Iran and Lebanon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/world-must-act-fast-to-contain-coronavirus-whos-tedros-idUSKBN20F2A1 | 2020-02-22 |
| The latest cases reported by South Korea are from several distinct Oliver Morgan the WHOs director of health emergency information and risk assessment told the briefing | Negative | A continued decline in the number of new cases of coronavirus infections in China is encouraging the World Health Organization said on Thursday while warning that infections outside the country could still spread | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-says-no-time-for-complacency-as-china-coronavirus-cases-fall-idUSKBN20E2B4 | 2020-02-21 |
| To date 25 other countries have reported 1076 cases to WHO including five in the latest affected Iran he said | Negative | A continued decline in the number of new cases of coronavirus infections in China is encouraging the World Health Organization said on Thursday while warning that infections outside the country could still spread | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-says-no-time-for-complacency-as-china-coronavirus-cases-fall-idUSKBN20E2B4 | 2020-02-21 |
| To date 25 other countries have reported 1076 cases to the WHO compared with more than 75400 inside China | Negative | China reported an uptick in new cases of coronavirus on Friday although the pace of increase was at its slowest since January a downward trend that the World Health Organization called encouraging | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-latest-factbox/latest-on-coronavirus-spreading-in-china-and-beyond-idUSKBN20E1BF | 2020-02-21 |
| Some 25 other countries have reported 1076 cases to the WHO including five in Iran the latest affected he said | Negative | The streets of South Koreas fourthlargest city were abandoned on Thursday with residents holed up indoors after dozens of people caught the new coronavirus in what authorities described as a superspreading at a church | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/coronavirus-fears-create-ghost-town-in-south-korea-after-church-super-spreader-idUSKBN20E0AM | 2020-02-21 |
| We are encouraged by this trend but this is no time for the WHOs directorgeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing in Geneva | Positive | A continued decline in the number of new cases of coronavirus infections in China is encouraging the World Health Organization said on Thursday while warning that infections outside the country could still spread | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-says-no-time-for-complacency-as-china-coronavirus-cases-fall-idUSKBN20E2B4 | 2020-02-21 |
| The United States has imposed some of the toughest curbs on travelers from China going beyond WHO recommendations and offending Beijing | Negative | An 80yearold Chinese tourist infected with the coronavirus has died in France the first fatality in Europe and the fourth outside mainland China from an epidemic that has shut Chinese factories curbed travel and disrupted global supply chains | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-toll/chinese-tourist-in-france-becomes-first-to-die-in-europe-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN20900F | 2020-02-16 |
| A World Health Organizationled mission to China will start its outbreak investigation this weekend and will focus on how the new coronavirus is spreading and the severity of the disease the WHOs directorgeneral said on Friday | Negative | A World Health Organizationled mission to China will start its outbreak investigation this weekend and will focus on how the new coronavirus is spreading and the severity of the disease the WHOs directorgeneral said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-says-joint-china-mission-to-start-coronavirus-probe-this-weekend-idUSKBN20821Q | 2020-02-15 |
| We expect the full team to touch down over the WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaking from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo told reporters in Geneva | Neutral | A World Health Organizationled mission to China will start its outbreak investigation this weekend and will focus on how the new coronavirus is spreading and the severity of the disease the WHOs directorgeneral said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-says-joint-china-mission-to-start-coronavirus-probe-this-weekend-idUSKBN20821Q | 2020-02-15 |
| The mission will also seek more details on how where and when the more than 1700 healthworkers infected contracted the new virus WHO officials said | Negative | BEIJING The Chinese capital Beijing on Friday imposed a 14day selfquarantine on people returning to the city from holidays to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus and threatened to punish those who failed to comply | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/people-returning-to-beijing-under-quarantine-as-china-struggles-to-pick-up-economy-idUSKBN20804J | 2020-02-15 |
| Chinese scientists are testing two antiviral drugs and preliminary results are weeks away although WHO chiefs have cautioned a vaccine could take 18 months | Negative | The Chinese province at the center of the coronavirus outbreak reported a record rise in deaths and thousands more infections using a broader definition on Thursday while Japan became the third place outside mainland China to suffer a fatality | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/china-reports-big-rise-in-coronavirus-deaths-who-sees-no-tip-of-iceberg-idUSKBN207025 | 2020-02-14 |
| In addition China has reported a total of 46550 labconfirmed cases since the outbreak began in December WHO figures show | Negative | GENEVA The spike in cases reported from China reflects reclassifying a backlog of suspect cases using patients chest images and not necessarily the tip of an of a wider epidemic a top World Health Organization official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/spike-in-china-virus-cases-doesnt-show-big-shift-in-epidemic-who-idUSKBN20728U | 2020-02-14 |
| Gostin voiced doubts that China would allow WHO experts to verify independently crucial information about the epidemics trajectory | Negative | GENEVA China is dragging its heels in accepting help on the ground from international health specialists diplomats and experts said on Thursday noting four days after a World Health Organization advance team arrived in Beijing no details have been released on how and when the full mission will deploy | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who-mission/experts-fear-china-reluctant-to-accept-who-ground-mission-idUSKBN2071WZ | 2020-02-14 |
| This outbreak could still go in any WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing in Geneva | Negative | BEIJING The Chinese province at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak reported a record rise in the death toll on Thursday under a new diagnostic method and Beijing sacked two local leaders after criticism of their handling of the crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/coronavirus-death-toll-leaps-in-chinas-hubei-province-party-bosses-sacked-idUSKBN207025 | 2020-02-13 |
| There are now over 42000 confirmed cases in China as well as 319 cases in 24 other countries including one death according to WHO and Chinese health officials | Negative | The death toll in China climbed above 1000 as the World Health Organization cautioned that the spread of cases outside of China could be the spark that becomes a bigger and said the human race must not let the epidemic get out of control | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-china-health/coronavirus-deaths-in-china-top-1000-as-investors-seek-safety-in-gold-dollars-idUSKBN20402G | 2020-02-11 |
| An advance team of World Health Organization medical experts arrived in China on Monday to help investigate the coronavirus outbreak WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said | Negative | An advance team of World Health Organization medical experts arrived in China on Monday to help investigate the coronavirus outbreak WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-china-health-who/advance-team-of-who-experts-arrives-in-china-to-probe-coronavirus-idUSKBN2041S9 | 2020-02-11 |
| Taiwan is not a WHO member due to Chinas objections which says the island is merely a Chinese province whose interests in the health body are adequately represented by Beijing | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwans air force scrambled armed fighters on Sunday to intercept Chinese jets that flew around the island claimed by Beijing as its own in a move denounced by Taiwans Defence Ministry as a threat to regional peace and stability | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-taiwan-china-defence/taiwan-scrambles-armed-jets-as-chinese-air-force-flies-around-island-idUSKBN2030AE | 2020-02-10 |
| GENEVA Feb 8 A World Health Organizationled international team investigating the coronavirus outbreak will leave for China on Monday or Tuesday WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Saturday | Negative | GENEVA Feb 8 A World Health Organizationled international team investigating the coronavirus outbreak will leave for China on Monday or Tuesday WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/china-health-who/who-led-coronavirus-probe-team-leaving-for-china-on-monday-or-tuesday-idUSL8N2A80B7 | 2020-02-09 |
| paragraph nine to show that the head of the WHO team would leave on Monday or | Negative | paragraph nine to show that the head of the WHO team would leave on Monday or | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/china-health/corrected-wrapup-8-american-dies-of-coronavirus-in-china-five-britons-infected-in-french-alps-idUSL4N2A801T | 2020-02-09 |
| China has complained bitterly about bans and measures that go against WHO recommendations and accused governments and companies that take such actions of fear mongering | Negative | spelling of Global Times editors name in 16th | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-health/corrected-wrapup-13-cruise-line-bans-china-citizens-outrage-as-doctor-who-sounded-coronavirus-alarm-dies-idUSL4N2A6068 | 2020-02-08 |
| The U.N. agency has been sending testing kits masks gloves respirators and gowns to every region Tedros told the WHO Executive Board in Geneva | Neutral | GENEVA | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-who/who-warns-of-global-shortage-of-coronavirus-protective-equipment-idUSKBN2011EK | 2020-02-08 |
| China has chafed at some travel curbs imposed by other countries which the WHO says are unnecessary | Negative | Chinese President Xi Jinping assured U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday that China was doing all it can to contain a new coronavirus that has killed almost 640 people including a doctor who sounded the alarm only to be threatened by police | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/china-will-defeat-coronavirus-xi-tells-trump-as-doctors-death-sparks-outcry-idUSKBN20003J | 2020-02-07 |
| Its hard to believe just two months ago this virus was unknown to WHO directorgeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Thursday it was too early to say that Chinas coronavirus outbreak was peaking but noted that the country had recorded its first day of a drop in the number of new infections | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-who/who-says-too-early-to-say-coronavirus-peaking-in-china-idUSKBN20028G | 2020-02-07 |
| WHO is coordinating with relevant ministries of health in relation to Olivia LaweDavies a spokeswoman for the WHO said in response to questions from Reuters | Negative | SINGAPORE At least three employees of a multinational company that held a meeting of more than 100 international staff in Singapore have contracted the new coronavirus sparking a World Health Organization investigation of the case | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-singapore-summit/who-investigates-singapore-conference-linked-to-foreign-virus-spread-idUSKBN2000C7 | 2020-02-06 |
| The case provided more evidence the virus is spreading through humantohuman contact outside China which the WHO has said is deeply concerning and could signal a much larger outbreak | Negative | Ten more people on a quarantined cruise liner in a Japanese port have tested positive for coronavirus officials said on Thursday as the virus death toll in mainland China hit 563 with almost 3000 new cases reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/china-virus-death-toll-jumps-past-500-more-cases-on-cruise-ship-off-japan-idUSKBN20003J | 2020-02-06 |
| There is no evidence that such treatments help in fighting the coronavirus Gauden Galea the WHOs representative in China told Reuters on Saturday | Negative | BEIJING The rapidly spreading virus in China and a shortage of medical resources are prompting people to resort to unorthodox ways to obtain treatment with some appealing to HIV patients and unauthorized importers for medicine | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health-drugs/desperate-for-coronavirus-solutions-chinese-turn-to-hiv-drugs-gray-market-and-traditional-cures-idUSKBN2000HA | 2020-02-06 |
| Outside China there have been 191 cases in 24 countries and one death in the Philippines WHO figures show | Negative | GENEVA Hundreds of experts will meet in Geneva next Tuesday and Wednesday to set research and development priorities for coronavirus drugs diagnostics and vaccines to combat the outbreak the World Health Organization said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-china-health-who-experts/who-convening-experts-on-drugs-vaccines-to-set-coronavirus-research-agenda-idUSKBN1ZZ2CG | 2020-02-06 |
| So far 27 cases of persontoperson spread of the virus have been documented in nine countries outside of China WHO officials said | Negative | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization on Tuesday urged all health ministers to improve datasharing on coronavirus immediately and said he would send a team of international experts to work with Chinese counterparts | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-who/who-calls-for-improved-data-sharing-on-virus-says-sending-team-to-china-idUSKBN1ZY2IG | 2020-02-05 |
| You should follow WHO suggestions and refrain from restrictions on international travel or trade stay clear of discriminatory actions and stigmatization | Negative | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization on Tuesday urged all health ministers to improve datasharing on coronavirus immediately and said he would send a team of international experts to work with Chinese counterparts | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-who/who-calls-for-improved-data-sharing-on-virus-says-sending-team-to-china-idUSKBN1ZY2IG | 2020-02-05 |
| There have been 20471 confirmed cases of coronavirus in China with 176 cases in 24 other countries and one death in the Philippines according to the WHOs latest figures | Negative | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization on Tuesday urged all health ministers to improve datasharing on coronavirus immediately and said he would send a team of international experts to work with Chinese counterparts | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-who/who-calls-for-improved-data-sharing-on-virus-says-sending-team-to-china-idUSKBN1ZY2IG | 2020-02-05 |
| TAIPEI Taiwans foreign ministry said on Tuesday China is for restricting the islands access to WHO during the coronavirus outbreak adding to tensions with Beijing over the growing health crisis | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwans foreign ministry said on Tuesday China is for restricting the islands access to WHO during the coronavirus outbreak adding to tensions with Beijing over the growing health crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-taiwan/taiwan-calls-china-vile-for-restricting-islands-access-to-who-on-coronavirus-idUSKBN1ZY0DV | 2020-02-04 |
| There is no reason for measures that unnecessarily interfere with international travel and he told the WHOs executive board in Geneva | Negative | China has agreed to allow U.S. health experts into the country as part of a World Health Organization effort to help fight the fastspreading coronavirus as the number of cases and deaths continued to mount | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/china-to-allow-in-u-s-health-experts-as-virus-shows-no-sign-of-slowing-idUSKBN1ZX00T | 2020-02-04 |
| Taiwan is not a WHO member because of Chinas objections | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwan dramatically escalated its war of words with Beijing on Tuesday over the islands exclusion from the World Health Organisation saying China was preventing Taiwan from getting timely information about the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-china-health-taiwan/taiwan-evacuates-first-group-from-wuhan-announces-limit-on-mask-purchases-idUSKBN1ZY03V | 2020-02-04 |
| The White House said China had accepted its offer to have U.S. experts as part of a WHO mission to study and help combat the virus | Positive | HONG Hong Kong reported its first death from the newly identified coronavirus on Tuesday the second fatality outside mainland China from an outbreak that has killed over 420 people spread around the world and raised fears for global economic growth | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/hong-kong-records-first-death-from-new-coronavirus-overall-toll-over-420-idUSKBN1ZY05A | 2020-02-04 |
| Although the virus is really serious they are still using the China principle to impede Taiwan from taking part in the WHOs technical she said | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwan dramatically escalated its war of words with Beijing on Tuesday over the islands exclusion from the World Health Organisation saying China was preventing Taiwan from getting timely information about the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-china-health-taiwan/taiwan-evacuates-first-group-from-wuhan-announces-limit-on-mask-purchases-idUSKBN1ZY03V | 2020-02-04 |
| Washington has unceasingly manufactured and spread Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters noting that the WHO had advised against trade and travel curbs | Negative | China has agreed to allow U.S. health experts into the country as part of a World Health Organization effort to help fight the fastspreading coronavirus as the number of cases and deaths continued to mount | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/china-to-allow-in-u-s-health-experts-as-virus-shows-no-sign-of-slowing-idUSKBN1ZX00T | 2020-02-04 |
| It is precisely developed countries like the United States with strong epidemic prevention capabilities and facilities that have taken the lead in imposing excessive restrictions contrary to WHO she said | Negative | China has agreed to allow U.S. health experts into the country as part of a World Health Organization effort to help fight the fastspreading coronavirus as the number of cases and deaths continued to mount | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/china-to-allow-in-u-s-health-experts-as-virus-shows-no-sign-of-slowing-idUSKBN1ZX00T | 2020-02-04 |
| But to date the WHOs secretariats attitude has been very hardline | Neutral | TAIPEI Shut out of the World Health Organization Taiwan is facing a dual problem in tackling the threat of a new it is being included as a highrisk area as part of China but is unable to get epidemic information firsthand | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-taiwan/shut-out-of-who-taiwan-faces-flight-bans-update-delays-in-virus-crisis-idUSKBN1ZX0JK | 2020-02-03 |
| Wang Liangyu Taiwans de facto ambassador in Geneva where the WHO is based told Reuters the procedures needed to be changed as existing WHO channels provided only information | Positive | TAIPEI Shut out of the World Health Organization Taiwan is facing a dual problem in tackling the threat of a new it is being included as a highrisk area as part of China but is unable to get epidemic information firsthand | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-taiwan/shut-out-of-who-taiwan-faces-flight-bans-update-delays-in-virus-crisis-idUSKBN1ZX0JK | 2020-02-03 |
| Bob Chen the head of the Taiwan foreign ministrys Department of International Organisations said they had complained repeatedly to the WHO to stop listing Taiwan as part of China | Negative | TAIPEI Shut out of the World Health Organization Taiwan is facing a dual problem in tackling the threat of a new it is being included as a highrisk area as part of China but is unable to get epidemic information firsthand | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-taiwan/shut-out-of-who-taiwan-faces-flight-bans-update-delays-in-virus-crisis-idUSKBN1ZX0JK | 2020-02-03 |
| Nearly 12000 people have been infected globally by the virus according to the WHO with all but just over 130 of those cases occurring in China | Negative | U.S. health officials on Saturday confirmed an eighth case of the fastspreading new coronavirus in the United States and the Pentagon said it would provide housing for people arriving from overseas who might need to be quarantined | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/u-s-confirms-its-eighth-case-of-coronavirus-pentagon-to-provide-quarantine-housing-idUSKBN1ZV3XV | 2020-02-02 |
| A dispenser volume to achieve 2030 seconds of drying time as per WHO recommendations is required for effective hand Hirose who wasnt involved in the study said by email | Positive | In the study volunteers needed at least 2 | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-workers-hand-sanitizer/health-workers-may-not-use-hand-sanitizer-properly-idUSKBN1ZT2U9 | 2020-01-31 |
| Virus death toll rises WHO to reconsider declaring emergency | Negative | Virus death toll rises WHO to reconsider declaring emergency | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-virus-fears-push-asian-stocks-to-7-week-low-boost-safe-haven-assets-idUSL4N29Z14I | 2020-01-30 |
| We believe these chains of transmission can still be said Mike Ryan Executive Director of the WHOs Health Emergencies Programme | Neutral | Foreign governments flew their citizens out of the epicentre of Chinas coronavirus outbreak on Wednesday as the number of deaths jumped to 133 and the World Health Organization voiced grave about persontoperson spread in three other countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-hubei/who-to-reconsider-declaring-global-emergency-as-china-virus-evacuations-begin-idUSKBN1ZR2VG | 2020-01-30 |
| China will strengthen international cooperation and welcomes the WHO participation in virus prevention | Positive | BEIJING President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China was sure of defeating a coronavirus that has killed 106 people but international alarm was rising as the outbreak spread across the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/china-vows-to-beat-devil-virus-as-countries-rush-to-evacuate-citizens-idUSKBN1ZR0CF | 2020-01-29 |
| So I do believe that the WHO is going to have to declare an emergency and is going to have to take the lead | Negative | Tuesdays story with no changes to | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-health-who-emergency/rpt-who-weighs-science-and-politics-in-global-virus-emergency-decision-idUSL8N29Y15J | 2020-01-29 |
| The Emergency Committee deliberations are secret and its members have been told not to speak about their debate several WHO officials told Reuters | Negative | Tuesdays story with no changes to | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-health-who-emergency/rpt-who-weighs-science-and-politics-in-global-virus-emergency-decision-idUSL8N29Y15J | 2020-01-29 |
| Outside of China there have now been 45 confirmed cases in 13 countries with no deaths so far the WHOs spokesman Christian Lindmeier told a briefing in Geneva on Tuesday | Negative | BERLIN Four people who work at the same company in southern Germany have been infected with the coronavirus and one of them contracted it from a colleague visiting their workplace in China officials said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-germany/four-co-workers-in-germany-contract-coronavirus-after-chinese-colleague-visits-idUSKBN1ZR057 | 2020-01-29 |
| Too early to declare China virus a global emergency WHO | Negative | European shares gain 1 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-european-stocks-climb-as-economic-data-fuels-growth-hopes-idUSL8N29T1Z8 | 2020-01-25 |
| Make no mistake though this is an emergency in said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus | Positive | WUHAN China China stepped up measures to contain a virus which has killed 25 people and infected more than 800 with public transport suspensions in 10 cities temples shutting and the rapid construction of a new hospital to treat those infected | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/china-shuts-down-transport-temples-as-virus-death-toll-rises-to-25-idUSKBN1ZM087 | 2020-01-24 |
| Make no mistake though this is an emergency in Tedros told a news conference at WHO headquarters in Geneva | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organisation said on Thursday that the new coronavirus that has emerged in China and spread to several other countries does not yet constitute an international emergency but it was tracking its evolution every | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who-geneva/who-says-not-declaring-virus-a-global-emergency-but-taking-it-seriously-idUSKBN1ZM2TY | 2020-01-24 |
| Too early to declare China virus a global health emergency WHO | Negative | Too early to declare China virus a global health emergency WHO | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-steady-as-caution-on-china-virus-continues-euro-hits-7-week-low-after-ecb-idUSL4N29T053 | 2020-01-24 |
| The decision is one I take extremely seriously and one I am only prepared to make with appropriate consideration of all the WHO directorgeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization said it will decide on Thursday whether to declare a global emergency over the outbreak of a new flulike virus spreading in and beyond China | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-says-will-decide-on-thursday-if-china-virus-is-a-global-health-emergency-idUSKBN1ZL2SN | 2020-01-23 |
| He was speaking after the WHO held a daylong meeting of an independent panel of experts in Geneva on Wednesday | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization said it will decide on Thursday whether to declare a global emergency over the outbreak of a new flulike virus spreading in and beyond China | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-says-will-decide-on-thursday-if-china-virus-is-a-global-health-emergency-idUSKBN1ZL2SN | 2020-01-23 |
| This is an evolving and complex said WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus | Negative | Deaths from Chinas new flulike virus rose to 17 on Wednesday with more than 540 cases confirmed leading the city at the center of the outbreak to close transportation networks and urge citizens not to leave as fears rose of the contagion spreading | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-transmission/chinas-wuhan-shuts-down-transport-as-global-alarm-mounts-over-virus-spread-idUSKBN1ZL07C | 2020-01-23 |
| Though the origin of the virus has yet to be identified WHO said the primary source was probably animal | Negative | The death toll from a new flulike coronavirus in China rose to nine on Wednesday with 440 confirmed cases Chinese health officials said as authorities stepped up efforts to control the outbreak by discouraging public gatherings in Hubei province | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health-transmission/china-virus-toll-rises-to-nine-as-pandemic-fears-grow-idUSKBN1ZL07C | 2020-01-22 |
| Information about newly reported infections suggest there may now be sustained humantohuman said WHOs regional director for the western Pacific Takeshi Kasai | Negative | BEIJING The toll from the Wuhan coronavirus in China rose to six deaths on Tuesday and the first case was reported in the United States sending markets tumbling on fears of economic damage as tourists canceled travel plans and airports stepped up screening | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-deaths/china-virus-spreads-to-u-s-curbing-travel-plans-and-spooking-markets-idUSKBN1ZJ2D2 | 2020-01-22 |
| GENEVA The World Health Organisation is convening an emergency committee of experts on Wednesday to assess whether the coronavirus outbreak in China constitutes an international emergency the WHO said on Monday | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organisation is convening an emergency committee of experts on Wednesday to assess whether the coronavirus outbreak in China constitutes an international emergency the WHO said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-who/who-emergency-committee-on-coronavirus-to-meet-on-wednesday-idUSKBN1ZJ22G | 2020-01-21 |
| The United States and most Asian countries have stepped up screenings of travelers from Wuhan and the WHO has warned hospitals worldwide that a wider outbreak is possible | Negative | BEIJING Health authorities are concerned that a virus originating in central China could spread when hundreds of millions of Chinese travel during next weeks lunar new year festival but residents said there were was little anxiety in the city at the epicenter | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-wuhan/virus-casts-shadow-over-chinas-biggest-festival-but-little-worry-at-epicenter-idUSKBN1ZH05Q | 2020-01-19 |
| Beijing has stepped up disinfection efforts in major transportation hubs while the WHO has given guidance to hospitals worldwide on infection prevention and control | Neutral | SHANGHAI A second person has died from pneumonia in the central Chinese city of Wuhan following an outbreak believed to be caused by a new coronavirus strain local health authorities said | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-pneumonia/china-says-second-person-dies-in-wuhan-pneumonia-outbreak-idUSKBN1ZG01B | 2020-01-18 |
| 25 when many Chinese tourists visit Thailand the WHO called on Thai authorities the public and holidaymakers to be on alert | Negative | GENEVA There may have been limited humantohuman transmission of a new coronavirus in China within families and it is possible there could be a wider outbreak the World Health Organization said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-who/who-says-new-china-coronavirus-could-spread-warns-hospitals-worldwide-idUSKBN1ZD16J | 2020-01-15 |
| The possibility of cases being identified in other countries was not unexpected and reinforces why WHO calls for ongoing active monitoring and preparedness in other its statement said | Positive | BANGKOK A Chinese woman has been quarantined in Thailand with a mystery strain of coronavirus authorities said on Monday the first time it has been detected outside China | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-thailand/chinese-woman-with-mystery-virus-quarantined-in-thailand-idUSKBN1ZC0ZF | 2020-01-14 |
| Chinas National Health Commission said in a separate statement that it would share information on the genome sequence of the coronavirus with the WHO to safeguard global health security | Positive | SHANGHAI A 61yearold man has died from pneumonia in the central Chinese city of Wuhan after an outbreak of a yet to be identified virus while seven others are in critical condition the Wuhan health authorities said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia/man-infected-with-mystery-virus-in-china-dies-after-outbreak-idUSKBN1ZA00D | 2020-01-12 |
